Sentence examples for combat himself from inspiring English sources

The story was somewhat different when he was 22 years old and eligible for combat himself.

Conversations with ordinary Muslims in Pakistan tend quickly to turn to their disillusionment with the inglorious figure Mr. bin Laden has cut since Sept. 11 -- as he counseled future jihadis that "this world is an illusion," valueless beside paradise, and posed for the videotapes with a Kalashnikov and a camouflage jacket, while avoiding the hazards of combat himself.

A new president came into power, a man who had never been in combat himself.

As he draws out his moves to unendurable lengths, the stranger appears to enter into a feverish combat with himself: From one pause to the next our friend's behavior became ever more bizarre.

Lorenzo Pisoni as the brothers, Orlando and Oliver, is in a tighter spot several times, and his efforts to get out of it are vastly entertaining, including a heated argument between the two that ends with Mr. Pisoni in hand-to-hand combat with himself until the noble brother decks the scheming one in a pair of spectacular backward somersaults.

Garner was a decorated combat veteran himself.

When Murdoch visited the combat zone himself in August 1966, he was informed by Brigadier David Jackson that the squadron was not performing the role the Army expected of it.

Add to that his observation that "Wallace started the process" of his own mythologizing, and we begin to see the complexities that energized and enervated him, the notion of an author locked in conversation, or even mortal combat, with himself.

He established himself as an action director, choreographing the elaborate combat scenes for which Hong Kong films are known, and sometimes fighting himself.

Styron refuses to imagine for his narrators here the test of combat that he himself never faced.

Here's an example from Moyo's book: An African entrepreneur who tried to sell low-cost mosquito netting to help combat malaria found himself put out of business by government aid programs that gave away the nets for free.