Sentence examples for combatants like from inspiring English sources

"It is greater when you are dealing with informal combatants like the patrollers or the contras.

They were not combatants like the soldiers who died at Gettysburg.

Lawful combatants like fighters for established national armies have greater legal protections.

"We should treat enemy combatants like the enemy — the U.S. court system is not the appropriate venue.

Past combatants like Dr. Deyo expect the fighting to start as soon as such studies start identifying winners and losers.

It has provided an opportunity of employment for thousands of former combatants, like Foday, who missed out on an education and have no career they can do.

There were languorous stretches where the ball was batted back-and-forth by mid-air combatants, hornet-like aerial duels, and sensational hits from space.

But the prosecutors argued that an unlawful combatant, like a Qaeda fighter without a military uniform, violates the law of war by killing in combat.

He did not tell the panel that it would be a violation of the law of war for an unlawful combatant, like a member of Al Qaeda, to kill a member of an opposing military service during combat.

This means that a typical surface combatant, like a cruiser or destroyer, spends about six months in home port training for a deployment, then sails for a six-month mission abroad, consuming perhaps two of those months in transit, and then spends another six-month period back in home port for maintenance and recovery.

But the Justice Department has insisted -- in an argument that civil libertarians and many criminal defense lawyers say is unsupported by case law -- that Mr. Moussaoui's Sixth Amendment right to exculpatory testimony does not extend outside United States borders to a enemy combatant like Mr. bin al-Shibh.