Sentence examples for been to combat from inspiring English sources

She said that one of her goals had been to combat alcohol abuse in rural Alaska, and she blamed Commissioner Monegan for failing to address the problem.

By the time the Department of Defense made it mandatory to conduct a Mental Health Assessment, I had completed my third deployment; two of which had been to combat zones.

However, the probability that prices continued to fall in April also highlights how tough it has been to combat deflation, and underlines the concerns of some analysts that the central bank's aim of reaching 2 percent inflation in about two years will be difficult.

One has been to increase their own use of weibo as a listening post, a strain of governance in the spirit of Emperor Guangwu; the other, more in the spirit of the dethroned Wang Mang, has been to combat rumours harshly and to tighten controls over the microblogs and their users, censoring posts and closely monitoring troublemakers.

Throughout his career, Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation and promote sustainable development, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment.

Another reason for the measure is to combat tax evasion.

That is to combat hackers, say flustered EPRDF officials.

The European Central Bank's main responsibility is to combat inflation.

The goal was to combat the quadratic nonlinearity in the electrostatic force.

The sharing of information is to combat tax evasion is also on the agenda at Dublin Castle.

When ID cards were first mooted, they were to combat terrorism.