| The deal merely apportioned the cabinet posts among power contenders without dissolving the factional militias. |
| Responded to such concerns, a national defence force of regular units, militias, and Volunteer units was constructed. |
| The war effort was built upon volunteer companies and the amorphous state militias behind them. |
| With the demise of organized militias, they contend, the right lost any relevance to constitutional adjudication. |
| Six months later, U.S. troops drove Filipino militias from Manila and pursued them into the countryside. |
| Orwell joined the militias and went to the front where he was seriously wounded. |
