Sentence examples for combatants down from inspiring English sources

The group of about 8,000 combatants, down from 17,000 in its heyday, is considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union.

The FARC, which also finances itself through cocaine trafficking, is estimated to have as few as 6,000 to 8,000 combatants, down from 16,000 at the time of intense fighting in Colombia in 2001.

Maoist combatants laid down their arms and Nepalese troops agreed to remain in their barracks.

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Then you have the builder: As soon as they see action, they either build a ramp over toward it, build a fortress against it, or on the occasion you see two builders go toe-to-toe in a to-the-death battle a complex set of interconnecting buildings, one twined within another, both combatants hunkered down in various anonymous blocks of it, armed with a shotgun, waiting.

To repeat: The argument that we should treat Mr. Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant boils down to his religion and his ethnic origin.

Trained from birth or on the job, the best hosts of another era commanded their tables as though part of the European Theater of Operations, emplacing and deploying and juxtaposing guests in charged combinations, going to the rescue when conversation flagged and a combatant went down.

At one point during the video, a combatant falls down and another inmate can be heard saying "let him up".

There was no sign that combatants were putting down their weapons before the cease-fire.

He urged the combatants to lay down their weapons and seek a compromise over the contentious rent issue.

As Shiloh combatants were bedding down after the first day's fighting, 200 miles to the east, in Shelbyville, Tenn., General Mitchel was meeting with a spy named James Andrews who had a plan to capture Chattanooga.