Sentence examples for actual combatants from inspiring English sources

These men might be doubles, phantoms or actual combatants.

Such questions demonstrate the difficulty that any urban conflict poses in separating actual combatants from innocent civilians.

By the time the security forces began searching door to door, most, if not all, of the actual combatants had left.

Several members of the platoon said that the prevalence of improvised explosive devices and near absence of actual combatants engendered frustration.

But whatever aid Iran provides to militias inside Iraq does not seem to extend to supplying actual combatants: Only 11 Iranians are in American detention, United States officials say.

Many times, the opinions presented do not represent the combatants' actual approaches or beliefs but are part of the gamesmanship.

The actual identities of the combatants are no more meaningful than the choice of black and white in a chess game.

He ordered federal officials to produce by next Tuesday morning a sworn statement "under penalty of perjury" from the commander of the Navy brig in South Carolina "explaining the reasons for his solitary confinement apart from any other prisoners or actual or alleged enemy combatants".

Instead there is a grey, mud-textured passageway with projected silhouettes of combatants, and film of actual soldiers in their dugout, and a Sopwith Camel fighter plane and a Mark V tank looming over us.

So the two combatants can trade blows over actual records in government.

Certainly, it's sometimes hard in America today to recall that the country is fighting two-and-a-half wars, so hidden is the actual experience of war from most non-combatant couch potatoes.