Sentence examples for an active battle from inspiring English sources

But Bush administration officials said that among the Uighur prisoners were three men who had been captured in an active battle zone and a firearms trainer, a Uighur who claimed he had been mistaken for someone else.

Warfare implies an active battle between two parties, but in the movie, the poor are so overmatched by the rich that the relationship between them is simply one of master and slave -- a passive relationship that leaves no room for negotiation, let alone battle.

The United Nations General Assembly recently unanimously approved a declaration committing nations to a more active battle against threat of microbial resistance to existing drugs, which is one of the most severe and rapidly growing threats to contemporary public health.

The story centers on a lone camper (a player waiting in a strategic location instead of seeking active battle) who faces five members of the Rangers clan in a deathmatch, a type of multiplayer game in which the goal is to kill as many opponents as possible.

Chrono Trigger uses an Active Time Battle system a staple of Square's Final Fantasy game series designed by Hiroyuki Ito for Final Fantasy IV named "Active Time Battle 2.0".

"I was an officer in the Biafran army and saw active battle in the trenches and I keep telling people we were volunteers, we were never conscripted.

Or Las Soldaderas: the women who provided assistance and support to the male soldiers in active battle during the Mexican revolution.

Active battle zones have also made much of the country difficult or dangerous to reach.

The Atlantic Council's Nawaz said he understood the need for some classification because of security constraints in active battle zones, which include much of Afghanistan.

Years later he eschewed active battle completely, moving to Australia, where he paid the bills as a land-air warfare instructor but spent much of his time fostering a love of surfing.

These nine battleships taken together were one short of equaling Japan's active battle fleet, although most of the Japanese vessels were newer.