Sentence examples for combat a war from inspiring English sources

Extending the country's state of emergency by three months, he demanded changes to French law to allow authorities to better combat a "war of jihadi terror".

Its argument was succinct: "Existing case-law establishes that individual soldiers can go to court if they are ordered into a combat zone to fight a war that they believe is unconstitutional".

"This first ICC trial makes it clear that the use of children in armed combat is a war crime that can and will be prosecuted at the international level," said Param-Preet Singh, one of the rights group's legal counsel.

#Syria — Amal Hanano (@AmalHanano) 31 Jul 12 "Intentionally killing anyone, even a shabiha, once he is outside of combat is a war crime, regardless of how horrible the person may have been," said Nadim Houry, a Middle East researcher for Human Rights Watch, in a telephone interview.

How do you tell two little boys that their dad, their hero, made it safely back from combat in a war zone, and then he took his own life?

The other dissenter was Ernest Gruening (D-AK) who admonished that the resolution would result in the nation: "sending our American boys into combat in a war in which we have no business, which is not our war, into which we have been misguidedly drawn".

Each "battlegroup" is formed around a battalion-sized formation provided by NATO members; there is no viable plan in place to reinforce these units in a timely fashion, meaning that casualties among men and equipment could not be replaced, allowing for the rapid reduction of combat capability under conditions of the kind of heavy combat a ground war in Europe against Russian forces would entail.

Well aware of the domestic political consequences of "losing" another country to the communists, Kennedy could see no viable exit from Vietnam, but he also was reluctant to commit combat troops to a war in Southeast Asia.

As Theodore B. Olson, the Solicitor General at the time, put it in the oral argument, for "an alien who had never had any relationship to the United States and who was being held as a result of a combat situation or a war situation in a foreign jurisdiction, there was no jurisdiction under the habeas statute".

The culture of corruption is a tough and pervasive one to combat, particularly in a war zone.

Brandon Friedman from VetVoice notes that Peake's interpretation contradicts VA psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, who maintains "Combat PTSD is a war injury.