Sentence examples for away in combat from inspiring English sources

With millions of American men away in combat or basic training, P.O.W.'s became a solution to the labor shortage.

Unlike Iraqi troops in Baghdad and other cities who melted away in combat, the Iraqis have steadfastly defended a large manufacturing compound near Qaim.

In honor of Memorial Day, we talked to four military spouses about what what their marriages are really like, especially when one spouse is far away or in combat.

It's not hard to see why it didn't catch fire in the multiplexes of the midwest and beyond: it dares to frustrate our expectations by turning away from combat in its second half in favour of a ruminative approach to conflict.

Citing his thirty-three years in the Army, "including nearly five years in combat away from my family," he asserted himself as, above all, a family man and a patriot.

Senior legal advisers to the military campaign say unarmed civilians, whether living in towns or fleeing the fighting, are clearly meant to be protected by the United Nations resolution, while opposition forces taking an active part in combat away from cities are currently seen as falling outside of its protection.

Males chase away their rivals and engage in combat.

No one likes to see innocent men, women, and children being killed, and no one likes to see the lives of young soldiers barely out of high school taken away in the field of combat.

But there was nevertheless a time when the US took the idea of deathless war to its then-logical endpoint by actively seeking to not just minimize battlefield casualities but to completely do away with the notion of dying in combat.

This has been a high-profile deployment for the military after a decade in which the public has mainly seen them engaged in combat in far-away countries.

Walter Reed is the Army hospital a short helicopter ride away in Bethesda, Maryland, where service members wounded in combat are treated.