Sentence examples for combat was over from inspiring English sources
I think the killing since major combat was over is absolutely disgusting.
Six months after President Bush declared that major combat was over, countless problems crowd in on Iraqis, not least unemployment and the absence of security.
When combat was over, the soldiers took her to the newly occupied territory of the West Bank, the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria that had been off limits to Jews during the years of Jordanian rule.
The combat picture has been a Hollywood staple for so long — since before the actual combat was over — that it can sometimes seem as if every possible story has already been told.
Meanwhile, clashes and increasingly sophisticated ambushes have been running at a rate of a dozen a day; by week's end, at least 33 American soldiers had been killed in hostilities since May 1, the date when President Bush declared that major combat was over.
Her hundred and one days in Baghdad, however, come to an end even before the premature declaration that combat is over, and she can only hint at the intractable conflict that has engulfed Iraq in the two years since then.
Major combat is over, so it would not require military intervention in an ongoing war.
American soldiers in Iraq still find themselves in a confusing combat environment (even though the "combat" is over), forced to fight in a foreign land where winning the "hearts and minds" of a people they know little about is crucial to the success of their mission.
"We also have to think about the constructive role that America plays in combat zones when the fighting is over," he said.
Honoring and remembering those who serve is vital — especially in real life, after combat is over — but doesn't escapist nonsense sound lovely right now? Where's a "True Blood" reboot when we need it?
It has outlasted the withdrawal of tens of thousands of American troops ahead of President Obama's declaration last month that the American combat mission was over, even if American soldiers have battled insurgents at least three times since then.
