Sentence examples for be engaged in combat from inspiring English sources

What, exactly, does it mean to be "engaged in combat"?

However, he added that the Danes would not be engaged in combat and would not leave the base.

If you put together the pieces of publicly available information, it seems that the Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, has acted with an overly broad definition of what it means to be engaged in combat.

By declining to specify what it means to be "engaged in combat," the letter does not foreclose the possible scenario — however hypothetical — of a military drone strike, against a United States citizen, on American soil.

The UK government would like to intervene directly against Isis in Libya, regarding it as illogical to be engaged in combat against the group in Syria and Iraq but not elsewhere.

They also noted that under the timetable agreed to at a NATO summit in Lisbon in 2010, the transition of responsibility for security from the Americans and NATO partners to Afghan forces already called for foreign forces to adopt a more supportive role by 2013, although they would actively be engaged in combat until 2014, as needed.

As a result of the strict rules of engagement, no NATO forces were engaged in combat during Operation Sky Monitor.

"Yes, we are engaged in combat operations.

(Roughly 1.2 million blacks served in World War II and about 50,000 were engaged in combat).

Fewer than 200 Australian troops are in Iraq now, and none are engaged in combat.

At another he insisted that his men had not been engaged in combat at all.