Sentence examples for combatant it from inspiring English sources

Indeed, even as the government insists he is an enemy combatant, it has also, oddly, cleared him for release.

This has made Glück a great poet of one-sided quarrel poems, where her voice must fend off the effaced but palpable pressure of a combatant: It is not the moon, I tell you.

Mr. Comey said that had the Bush administration brought criminal charges against Mr. Padilla in the beginning, rather than jailing him as an enemy combatant, it might never have found out about his plotting.

It argues in the case of Jose Padilla, an American citizen accused of being part of a dirty bomb plot, that merely by labeling him an "enemy combatant," it can hold him in secret indefinitely.

Six months ago, I was told by the Americans that I am innocent and I am not an enemy combatant". It remains a mystery why Turkistani was sent to Guantanamo Bay at all.

A few days later I was delivered to the United States Army: although I didn't know it at the time, I was now labeled an "enemy combatant". It did not matter that I was no one's enemy and had never been on a battlefield, let alone fought or aimed a weapon at anyone.

Although the operation met its objective to kill at least a dozen al-Qaida combatants, it sacrificed the life of Navy SEAL William "Ryan Owenss and injured three other American soldiers.

Where else would you want to be but in Durban come kick-off time on Saturday?" To the non-combatant it sounds terrifying.

Further, as they were not combatants it was considered neither just nor necessary to take them prisoner.

Although the Theory permits civilians to defend themselves against intentional attack by combatants, it also reduces their moral status if they do so.

And in this particular case of garden-variety chemical warfare, the winner wasn't either of the combatants — it was humans.