Sentence examples for combatant from inspiring English sources

The child combatant, Arya Stark, necessarily discarded playfighting and embraced the real thing.

Prior to our current princes, the most successful recent combatant was their uncle Prince Andrew, who served with distinction as a Sea King pilot during the 1982 Falklands war.

Their players' body language as the final whistle blew on Good Friday's 2-2 drat at home to Watford, in which they led by a man and a goal with 15 minutes to play, was telling: the battle for automatic promotion had just lost another combatant.

At his first combatant status review tribunal in 2007 he admitted to an extraordinary catalogue of terrorist attacks, many of which he was responsible for, others merely vague ideas.

But under the Geneva Conventions the question of whether someone is a prisoner-of-war or an unlawful combatant is supposed to be determined by an independent judge, not by American military officials, the point that Mr Powell, concerned about the treatment of American soldiers who might be taken captive, has raised.

Mr Kerry seems to have gained most from the debates by reducing Mr Bush's small lead in the polls.See articleYaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured during the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and held without charge as an "enemy combatant", was freed and returned to his home in Saudi Arabia.

He referred to the September 1989 statement in which "the IRA acknowledges that it carried out the attack in which Mrs Hazell, a non-combatant, was killed" and said that in 2002 "as an important contribution to the peace process, it offered its 'sincere apologies and condolences' to the families of all of those non-combatants who were killed or injured by it".

So the extent of Mr Bush's powers will be determined by two enemy-combatant cases currently working their way through the federal courts; they should reach the Supreme Court some time next year.The two enemy combatants, Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi, are both in solitary confinement.

The removal of the enemy-combatant status may make plea-bargains harder; and several provisions of the Patriot Act are due to expire at the end of this year.

Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.

Republicans and Democrats are divided on this question: 63% of Republicans want Mr Shahzad to receive enemy-combatant status, while 51% of Democrats think he should be given the rights of a citizen.