Sentence examples for combat direction from inspiring English sources

He also visited the Combat Direction Center, where he heard a briefing on how the Air Force and the Navy had adapted to each other's mid-air refueling practices, a matter that seemed to interest him considerably -- probably as a result of his years as defense secretary during the first Bush administration.

The game's focus would be space combat; this direction was inspired by a level of Shadows of the Empire in which the player flies a snowspeeder during the Battle of Hoth.

The move caps six months of combat over the direction of the bureau, but is just the latest chapter in the fight over the shape of Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the controversial financial regulation law that Obama signed in 2010 that created the new agency.

— but at least it gestures in the direction of combat, which is embedded in the D.N.A. of sport.

As a member of Mr. Ben Bella's cabinet, Mr. Harbi tried in vain to combat the increasingly authoritarian direction of the revolution.

You might not call fencing practical, especially fencing with what is in effect a light sabre what kind of self-defense is that?—but at least it gestures in the direction of combat, which is embedded in the D.N.A. of sport.

Probably not on their own, but B&N is at least expending effort in the right direction to combat flagging consumer interest in dedicated e-reader devices.

In short, in an era in which all groups, even the historically empowered majority, see themselves as victims of bias, deciding from which direction to combat the problem of discrimination will only continue to become an increasingly difficult task.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union and China poured weapons, supplies, and advisers into the North, which in turn provided support, political direction, and regular combat troops for the campaign in the South.

The movie is, after all, called "Suicide Squad," and if it has any substance at all it's in the ruinous and sacrificial cost of martial virtue, the question of the terrifying proximity of good and evil in combat, the thoughtful and precise direction that mighty force requires to keep it on the side of good.

Autonomous combat aircraft working under the direction of human fighters obviously occupies a middle ground regarding this debate, but development and testing of these systems is likely to continue while the ethical questions remain unresolved.