Sentence examples for combat order from inspiring English sources

At the same time, he greatly exaggerates the significance of I.B.M.'s contribution, asserting that, as the war progressed, "eventually, every Nazi combat order, bullet and troop movement was tracked on an I.B.M. punch card system".

At Poltava, where Charles XII of Sweden suffered a catastrophic defeat, the plan of operations was Peter's own: it was his idea to transform the battlefield by works of his military engineers the redoubts erected in the path of the Swedish troops to break their combat order, to split them into little groups, and to halt their onslaught.

And back in the Fifties and Sixties, Balenciaga and Givenchy would only present their collections to the press on the eve of retail delivery in order to avoid copying and to combat orders being affected by critical commentary.

The commander, Col. Lawrence Stutzriem, also said that the air combat orders that Air Force pilots were required to read included information that coalition ground forces would intermittently use live ammunition.

The player issues combat orders—like "Fight", "Magic", and "Item"—to individual characters via a menu-driven interface while engaging in battles.

When Kenney informed MacArthur that he planned to observe the operation from a B-17, MacArthur reminded Kenney of his orders to keep out of combat, orders that Brigadier General Kenneth Walker had disobeyed at the cost of his life.

We follow the twists and turns of the combat in order to learn the final outcome.

Holding castles close to the enemy lands as their bases of operation, they were glad to welcome into their midst the Muslims, who were eager to die in combat in order thus to open for themselves the gates of paradise.

If she is part vengeful goddess sending ill-prepared men into dangerous combat in order to spite her handful of peers she is equally a cheerful amalgam of every screwball-comedy/sports-movie cliché ever.

Colombian authorities have arrested a retired lieutenant colonel and seven other soldiers in the killings of two civilians whom they presented as guerrillas slain in combat in order to inflate rebel body counts, the authorities said Friday.

The weapon dance employs weapons—or stylized versions of weapons traditionally used in combat in order to simulate, recall, or reenact combat or the moves of combat in the form of dance, usually for some ceremonial purpose.