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Definition of vigilance committee in English: vigilance committeenoun US A group of vigilantes. Example sentencesExamples - But the vigilance committee inside me is prepared.
- While attention was drawn to the cattlemen, the work of the urban vigilance committees continued unabated.
- One juror had worked for the Union army, and another had protected civilians from vigilance committees and served as a Union scout.
- Then there are misconceptions like members of vigilance committee being government employees and getting paid by us!
- This is precisely what occurred in Socorro, New Mexico during the 1880s, when an Anglo vigilance committee arose in opposition to the predominantly Mexican legal authorities.
- The loyalty of schoolteachers was screened by local vigilance committees.
- Outside the judicial system, the Confederate military and civilian vigilance committees continued to threaten and attack people suspected of disloyalty.
- Setting up village vigilance committees in such areas is another suggestion.
- When the vigilance committee threatened him with death, he retreated to a nearby settlement, Centerville, where the sheriff supplied his group with rifles, raising the specter of a clash of arms.
- A vigilance committee hanged the three men accused of being the ringleaders, while the lives of the rest were spared.
Definition of vigilance committee in US English: vigilance committeenounˈvijələns kəˈmidē US A body of vigilantes. Example sentencesExamples - When the vigilance committee threatened him with death, he retreated to a nearby settlement, Centerville, where the sheriff supplied his group with rifles, raising the specter of a clash of arms.
- A vigilance committee hanged the three men accused of being the ringleaders, while the lives of the rest were spared.
- Outside the judicial system, the Confederate military and civilian vigilance committees continued to threaten and attack people suspected of disloyalty.
- This is precisely what occurred in Socorro, New Mexico during the 1880s, when an Anglo vigilance committee arose in opposition to the predominantly Mexican legal authorities.
- Then there are misconceptions like members of vigilance committee being government employees and getting paid by us!
- One juror had worked for the Union army, and another had protected civilians from vigilance committees and served as a Union scout.
- The loyalty of schoolteachers was screened by local vigilance committees.
- While attention was drawn to the cattlemen, the work of the urban vigilance committees continued unabated.
- Setting up village vigilance committees in such areas is another suggestion.
- But the vigilance committee inside me is prepared.
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