Sentence examples for before the combat from inspiring English sources

Thousands of people had flooded into the city in the days before the combat to see the spectacle but all had been warned not to physically aid the combatants on pain of death, nor call out during the fight on pain of losing a hand.

The American presence will continue shrinking before the combat mission officially ends in December 2014.

About 300 people, most of them Namibian guerrillas, were killed before the combat was brought to an end.

There were nine troop-carrying helicopters, and they were accompanied by two gunships from the 174th Aviation Company, which, with their guns blazing, had crisscrossed the landing guns blazing, crisscrossed the landing zone moments before the combat troops landed, firing thousands of bullets and rockets in a fusillade designed to keep enemy gunmen at bay.

At a weigh-in-style news conference at the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in Dakar less than two weeks before the combat, a brawl erupted between the wrestlers and their entourages inside, and outside among their supporters, who were dispersed by tear gas when the riot police arrived.

Xenoblade Chronicles was a game I'd played a little bit of before, enjoying the combat and the exploration, but up until recently it had sat mostly unloved and unplayed in my 3DS.

Some are badly wounded and have lost limbs, and others are waiting to heal before returning to the combat zone.

Returning to Pearl Harbor, she practiced for battle and underwent an overhaul before returning to the combat zone in late July.

Hardly a day goes by when I do not think about Specialist Charles Bush, the soldier of the civil affairs battalion I commanded in Iraq who was killed six days before Christmas and just a dozen before our departure from the combat zone.

The Queen's Speech is a mere skirmish compared to the combat before us.

Ferris began by sailing slowly northwards, using the light winds to pull ahead of the combat before tacking back towards Formidable.