| Rogue government and rebel militias who prowl rural areas are hardly accountable to higher authorities. |
| Responded to such concerns, a national defence force of regular units, militias, and Volunteer units was constructed. |
| These he mixed with reproductions of old group portraits, of militias and the governors and governesses of charitable institutions. |
| Six months later, U.S. troops drove Filipino militias from Manila and pursued them into the countryside. |
| The soldiers will be from local militias and local reserves, with all the tangled politics that implies. |
| Powerful local families or sheiks took their place, setting up their own militias and spawning inter-tribal feuds. |
