Sentence examples for caught up in combat from inspiring English sources

Others lost their eyes to shrapnel or as a result of being caught up in combat.

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.

Some, sadly, are so caught up in the combat of the single issue of sexuality that their words appear to many to be blinkered and splintered.

"I am following with strong concern the dramatic fate of the civilian population caught up in the violent combat in Syria and forced to abandon everything to flee the horrors of the war," Francis told a crowd in St Peter's Square.

Seeing it for the first time on a big screen, I was caught up in the chaos of combat and the feverish pace of the story.

Sajda Mughal, 36, became director of the Jan Trust charity, which helps Muslim mothers combat radicalisation, after she was caught up in the bombings.

Yet this isn't a movie about a soldier coping with the trauma of combat or a crisis of conscience over some atrocity he got caught up in.

For the international community, the involvement of UN troops in direct combat may offer a model to reform peacekeeping missions to better protect civilians caught up in unrest and actively contribute to ending wars.