Sentence examples for back from the fighting from inspiring English sources

Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top American officer in the Middle East, said in a briefing in Washington that one problem was the disappointing progress in developing Iraqi police units cohesive enough to mount an effective challenge to insurgents and allow American forces to begin stepping back from the fighting.

But not once has the government made an effort to rehabilitate the men coming back from the fighting.

Diane Lees, director general of IWM, added: "Flight of the Stories captures exactly what we were trying to convey - for while it is true that some of the people never made it back from the fighting front, their stories have, and it is our duty at IWM to ensure that they continue to be told.

They married and had a daughter – but divorced when he came back from the fighting embittered and turned to drugs.

Frank is already back from the fighting when we meet him, a year after being discharged from an integrated Army into a segregated homeland.

In recent days Hamas seems to have stepped back from the fighting, leaving the rocket attacks to Islamic Jihad and other militant groups.

On the way home to sleep in his own bed, he'd be saluted by sailors back from fighting the German U-boats in the Atlantic.

Yet like us, the Romans clutched guide books (guide scrolls, if you want to be a stickler about it) and stood in awe on the spot where Aegeus waited for his son Theseus to come back from fighting the Minotaur, and subsequently killed himself upon believing that the boy was dead.

The crime waves that occurred by and large were the aftermath of the war and whites coming back from fighting in the Civil War and settling scores with people and all sorts of renegade activity that didn't involve black people at all, but they were blamed for it, and that was then used as a kind of ruse for why these incredibly brutal new legal measures then began to be put in place".

We were with jihadists who just came back from Syria fighting with Isis, coming back to topple the Egyptian regime, or surrounded by senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Another shows Boy, circa 1945, back from fighting in the Second World War, relaxing on a park bench in a ball cap, the sun reflecting off his spectacles.