Sentence examples for active battlefield from inspiring English sources

The salient had been an active battlefield since 1914.

So far, Hilu said, his most active battlefield partners were three Darfuri groups, but he was looking for others, even if their politics did not agree.

What Graham didn't get was something Obama had pledged in the Archives speech to create: "clear, defensible, and lawful standards" for dealing with future wartime detainees, beyond those captured on the active battlefield of Afghanistan.

During a tournament in Poland in the early 1990's, Nelson sat spellbound as several players told him they had to crawl through an active battlefield in Bosnia-Herzegovina to catch their flight.

International law, he said, does not prohibit the use of remotely piloted warplanes, or prevent the U.S. from "using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield".

Senior US military officers, unconvinced by the push to close Guantánamo and wary of the administration's allergy to a formal detention policy, did not want to risk setting a precedent for courts ordering battlefield captives free, even as Guantánamo, thousands of miles from any active battlefield, presented a different set of circumstances.

The war in Iraq has lengthened the war in Afghanistan by splitting our military and financial resources between two active battlefields: the unnecessary and wasteful one in Iraq and the essential and brutal one in the Pashtun heartland of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

But military commanders are thought to be reluctant to withdraw troops from more active battlefields like Kandahar and Helmand Provinces in the south, for fear of losing some of the gains made there, so quieter areas may see big troop reductions, with the risk that the insurgents will take advantage of that, some analysts worry.

Entering the region is especially nerveracking because it's an active jungle battlefield littered with mines.

Is it Khamis, the most active on the battlefield – and the most hardline?

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Misratan leaders have spoken out against jihadist atrocities, but a significant and growing extremist element remains active on the battlefield.