Sentence examples for as a fighting from inspiring English sources

The Farc has been written-off as a fighting force several times during its five-decade campaign to take power, only to fight back, supported by revenues from cocaine-trafficking.

On Thursday, they demolished a hill that the Taliban had used as a fighting position.

Turning to journalism, he had a long career as a fighting liberal editor of The Evening Post.

This is challenging Britain's belief in itself as a fighting nation with an important role in the world.

Sir Malcolm said that because the UN would not be deployed as a fighting army, "a political deal of some sort would need to come first".

He also allowed UNITA to have bases in Congo the loss of which could mark the end of UNITA as a fighting force after more than 30 years.

The other was to neutralize foreign affairs as a fighting matter so he can return to the domestic economic issues where he has a chance of winning.

He knows that the communists are finished as a fighting force, and that they have nothing to gain by harming their captives.

Cast out on the streets, Hagen is reconditioned as a fighting dog before being rounded up with other "inferior" mongrel strays.

The British military, largely discredited as a fighting force by the Afghan debacle, is supposedly on a stretch of official downtime known as a "strategic pause".

But Nimoy was Spock; he even invented the famous Vulcan "neck-pinch" as a fighting technique suitable for a vegetarian, which Spock was.