Sentence examples for combat of course from inspiring English sources

Single combat, of course, is as old as the hills where David slew Goliath, but no laws regulating its conduct existed until the beginning of the sixth century, when King Gundebald of Burgundy decided that irreconcilable differences could be settled through trial by combat.

And, heck, if we need new armoured ground vehicles to win our good wars, don't we want experienced men old soldiers who really know what they're talking about levelling the sales pitch to the officers who rose to fill their vacated combat boots?Of course, patriotism is practically made to be co-opted in this way, which is why I'm against it.

Ashton Carter, US defense chief, described Keating's death as "a combat death, of course".

The principal purpose of combat art of course is propaganda, with posters a particularly effective way to convey a simple message to a largely illiterate population.

We see the banality of parent-teacher meetings, the trials of juggling a wife, mistress, female shrink and mother on Tony's fragile mind, the vast gaps between action and ennui for the crew – not unlike soldiers in combat – and of course the postmodern chat about which is their favourite scene in The Godfather.

"It is a combat death, of course, and a very sad loss," US Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters during a trip to Germany.

"The decisions to open up further combat units, of course, will be up to senior leaders in the military," Griest said.

An unforgettable fusion of narrative, character, combat, dialogue and, of course, a pretty good movie license.

A few years back Representative Barney Frank coined an apt phrase for many of his colleagues: weaponized Keynesians, defined as those who believe "that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers, but when it builds airplanes that are never going to be used in combat, that is of course economic salvation".

With regard to internal policy matters, it is in my view a matter of urgency finally to adopt the Convention on the Common European Frontier Agreement, as well as to implement measures to combat terrorism and, of course - as other speakers have said - illegal drug trafficking.

There was plenty of combat in the course of the hearings, but on Clinton's side it was waged, for the most part, by the Democrats on the panel, who served as her anger translators.