Sentence examples for caught in combat from inspiring English sources
Human rights groups have asserted that civilians are being increasingly caught in combat.
The fighting in the city is now intense urban combat and civilians are frequently caught in the fighting.
But neither this divergence nor the decade of injustices Khadr has suffered would not have come to pass were it not for the absurd notion that a teenager caught up in combat is the public enemy.
The citation was put forward at a time when the government was trying to persuade the then-dubious British public -- much of which remained opposed to the war, at least until British troops were actually caught up in combat -- of the need for prompt action against Iraq.
Both armies were slowed as the tanks were blown up in minefields and caught up in combat on a series of prepared Soviet defensive lines.
Although upward of 238,000 jobs are off limits to them, many women — particularly in the Army and Marine Corps — have been caught up in combat while delivering supplies, providing medical aid and serving in other capacities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With Falluja exploding and with Shiites restive elsewhere, the United States has found itself caught in the most extensive combat since last May, when President Bush declared the end of major military operations in Iraq.
There must be other combat veterans caught in a moral struggle over their wartime actions.
It is important to remember that not every act of oppression or violence is automatically a war crime, even when it occurs under circumstances that for all intents and purposes look like combat to those caught in its midst.
Combat Engineer Captain Lauren Edwards, caught in an Iraq firefight, consoled herself, "These Marines are my responsibility.
