Sentence examples for acts of combat from inspiring English sources

Since the election of the Coalition in 2013, the conservatives' engagement with the unions have been open acts of combat.

"Martyrdom operations are legitimate, and they are among the greatest acts of combat for Allah's cause," said Bashir bin Fahd al-Bashir, a Saudi preacher and one of Al Qaeda's most popular religious authorities, in a recent sermon.

The trouble with that analysis, Mr. Paust said, is that it gives terrorists the ability to claim that under international law, attacks on military targets like the Pentagon and the destroyer Cole are lawful acts of combat.

In 2012, the mayor of Nagoya, Takashi Kawamura, a prominent nationalist, denied there was a massacre at Nanjing, saying there were only "conventional acts of combat".

If costume can be justified as a functional object, particularly in that it is associated with the very masculine act of combat, it can be distanced from feminine acts of vanity, and childish acts of play.

A core checklist of 20 context specific war-related experiences was compiled from this reference group of students, which accurately described common acts of violence, combat situations and other war-related traumatic events.

After MI, there is significant activation of cardiac ACE2 in rats and humans, which acts to combat the adverse effects of an activated cardiac RAS [ 4].

Increasing evidence show that the expression of cardiac ACE2 is increased after MI, which acts to combat the adverse effects of an activated cardiac RAS and therefore may be a compensatory mechanism in MI [ 1, 4, 8].

To interpret the statute otherwise, the chief justice smiled, "would sweep in everything from the detergent under the kitchen sink to the stain remover in the laundry room", turning the poisoning of goldfish with "a few drops of vinegar" into an act of chemical combat.

Free school breakfasts are on the agenda for thousands of pupils - as growing numbers of authorities act to combat them becoming hungry during the day and unable to concentrate in class.

On March 2, 1863, the 37th Congress's final day, Congress approved the False Claims Act to combat the problem of war profiteering.