Sentence examples for Direct combatant from inspiring English sources

A no-fly zone, while possible, would make the US a direct combatant in the civil war, a step for which there is limited public support.

This path culminated in a savage little fairy tale about Vladimir V. Putin's Russia, "Day of the Oprichnik," which suddenly, and for the first time, positioned Mr. Sorokin as a direct combatant in Russian politics.

Washington would have to become a direct combatant, launching attacks on the ground against tanks, artillery, army formations, government installations, and even leadership positions.

The Justice Department had wanted, and did not receive, a clear statement from the appeals court that Mr. Moussaoui had no right to direct testimony from enemy combatants held abroad.

As a result, they "held invalid a decision of a Combatant Status Review Tribunal" that Parhat was an "enemy combatant," and "directed the government to release or transfer" him (or to hold a new tribunal "consistent with the Court's opinion").

This year's New York battle began with combatants directed to arrive on a particular Chinatown street corner at midnight.

The carnage does not compare to suicide bombings but it is political in purpose, perpetrated by a nonstate actor, directed against non-combatants, and intended to intimidate and scare both the Israeli government and ordinary Palestinians — these factors meet academic and government definitions of the word.

A narrow definition departs from much ordinary use by restricting terrorist violence to that directed at non-combatants or innocent persons.

When the first world war is drifting inexorably out of direct memory, all its surviving combatants now dead, Deller's work brought it back to a human level.

Similarly, a Pentagon consultant who is involved in the war on terror said that "at least ten senior flag and general officers, including combatant commanders" — the four-star officers who direct military operations around the world — "have weighed in on that issue".

Even then, it said, echoing Yoo, the Commander-in-Chief could order torture if it was a military necessity: "Congress may no more regulate the President's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield".