Today, the ragtag collection of houseboats is in the thousands, and residents visit each other in kayaks.
Mali's ragtag soldiers fled when the two men emerged from desert hide-outs last year.
Ragtag paramilitaries fought and lost two wars against the secessionists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Allied pressure brought a ragtag army of starving Poles from the depths of Siberia.
Those linked to ragtag Hmong rebels in remote mountain areas are deemed particularly vulnerable.
Loyalist forces wield far greater firepower than the ragtag rebel bands of the Free Syrian Army.
It took 450, 000 British and imperial soldiers to subdue a ragtag Boer force that never topped 88, 000.
This ragtag army mustered in Persia, trained in Palestine and fought notably at Monte Cassino in Italy.
Some members of his ragtag crew, refugees living in a tent camp, have already lost limbs to the mines.
Under the peace agreement, the Maoists' ragtag bunch of guerrillas was supposed to be integrated with the proper army.
But when Lawrence looked at his ragtag band of Bedouin fighters he realized that a direct attack on Medina would never succeed.
Cinco de Mayo marks May 5, 1862, when a ragtag Mexican force whipped the superior French Army at the Battle of Puebla.
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That mess, the dissents said, resulted from the ragtag decentralized election system used in Florida, not by what the Florida court did.
Inside Syria there is a ragtag of militias, gangs and the Free Syrian Army (FSA), mainly soldiers who have deserted the regime.
That reflects squabbling over local resources, lack of communications in a country with few roads and indiscipline in ragtag bits of the army.
With graduation two decades behind him, Dodge is trying to make pro football a going concern as captain of the ragtag Duluth Bulldogs.
Wander any of the cobblestoned streets throughout the Centro Historico, where you'll find a ragtag sensory overload of booksellers, food vendors and knick-knack purveyors.
The rebels -- initially a ragtag group of everyday Syrians -- took up arms to fight against the comparatively more heavily armed government forces.
The bill of materials can rack up quickly when there's no standard and no interoperability, so how can such a ragtag operation really succeed?
More than 200 years ago, the British gave George Washington and his ragtag army fits when they seized New York City in an iron grip.
Exactly 150 years ago, General Zaragoza and his ragtag band of patriots made a brave stand against the invading forces of a world-renowned European army.
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Rebel attacks by the ragtag Free Syrian Army have been increasing.
Instead, the company wants to create a content platform strategy that ties together all of its ragtag content and app experiences into a single customer relationship.
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He was buying every punk rock and new wave record issued, taping them, and turning me onto tapes which I'd then play on my ragtag stereo.
Extra guidance is provided by a ragtag group of advisers, including a hippy, a narcoleptic and a gambler which may be how Bundesbank officials now view their euro-zone colleagues.
So Hodgson, who has a knack for turning a ragtag roster of misfits into well-drilled overachievers by preaching fundamentals, may be a better fit for England than his record suggests.
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Our people on the ground say that the opposition is a ragtag group of people with more heart than they have military training and than they have in weapons, quite honestly.
This is the second largest opposition party in the upper house after Naoto Kan's ragtag collection of politicians who recently banded together under the banner of the Democratic Party of Japan.
But if you were to ask them their favorite team, they would reflexively bring up the "Unforgettables" the ragtag group of Rick Pitino-coached overachievers who infamously fell to Duke's Christian Laettner 20 years ago.
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