Sentence examples for combat offers from inspiring English sources

As awards-courting movies such as The Wrestler and The Fighter have reminded us in recent years, the strange world of competitive physical combat offers rich pickings for film-makers wishing to delve into the tortured male psyche.

The moment-to-moment combat offers a lot of complexity, too.

The story of a fiery activist's crusade against the denial and indifference that made the epidemic all the more difficult to combat offers more than just a history lesson — it is a heart-rending profile in the productive uses of outrage.

Does this glossy Hollywood version of combat offer a good opportunity to remember the sacrifices of the members of the armed forces?

It's stunning to behold, the in-game action looking like finished animation for combat that offers plenty of variety.

In "Raw Combat" he offers a guided tour of what he calls "New York City's most ghetto-tastic boxing gyms," where underground fights typically take place.

"Zero Dark Thirty" has Maya, a C.I.A. officer obsessed with hunting down Osama bin Laden, who operates in a theatre of global combat that offers entirely new terrain for female heroics.

Although players may just be following a series of button or analogue stick prompts, the combat still offers the suspense and impressive non-lethal action you'd expect from Batman, even if it is more wooden than the fluid combat found in the Arkham series.

A better cop than secret agent, Boyle also gets wind of a smuggling ring that's depriving soldiers of the new miracle drug, penicillin, and during the course of his investigation discovers that even in the middle of a war a combat hospital offers no refuge from noncombat crimes like drug trafficking, high-stakes gambling, rape and murder.

While the movie's Manhattan setting and some gratifying hand-to-hand combat sequences offer rewards, the long wait for a film that takes full advantage of Mr. Statham's abundant talents continues.

Candidates are likely to be weighing up what combination of condoning and combatting irregularities offers the best chance of victory, and few people believe anyone will stick to the official campaign budget cap of 10m Afghanis (£107,000).