Sentence examples for as combatants from inspiring English sources
The US military had never previously detained as combatants individuals captured outside of a zone of active US combat operations.
Treating terrorists as combatants is a mistake for two reasons.
They may be used as combatants, spies, messengers, porters and cooks, and for forced sexual purposes.
The report calls "particularly repugnant" the use of children as combatants and spies.
They would continue to be held without trial as "combatants" under the laws of war.
Labeling its members as combatants elevates its cause and gives Al Qaeda an undeserved status.
It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants . . .
They begin to see themselves primarily as combatants in the world, people whose identity is rooted in thwarting prison control.
Occasionally someone will approach him or his friends, all men in their 20s, and claim they recognize them as combatants.
By treating such terrorists as combatants, however, we accord them a mark of respect and dignify their acts.
It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.
