The word "combatting" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is generally used as a verb in the sense of struggling against a force or problem. Example sentence: "We are committed to combatting climate change by implementing sustainable initiatives in our community."
A growth in measures against "offensive" speech and greater surveillance of media under the guise of combatting terrorism are also documented in the report, which was written by Shawn Crispin.
Asked about the role of government and industry in combatting climate change, US voters were most likely to say that corporations and industry should be doing more, according to polling last year by the George Mason center.
They say that prosecuting professionals for "so-called FGM" in such circumstances distracts people from tackling the real issues, which are girls being sent abroad for FGM or having it done in the UK and combatting cultural attitudes in countries where it is endemic.
If half of the indignation expended on Cantona's insane assault had been invested in combatting the aggressive culture of the terraces then Wednesday's incident might never have happened.
Questioned later about his remarks, Kerry went back on message and said he alluding to the difficulty that Israel faces combatting Hamas in such a a dense area.
That followed a January 2014 finding by the Obama-appointed watchdogs at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that bulk phone records collection had not stopped terrorist attacks and had "limited value" in combatting terrorism more broadly.
New disruptive campaigns must be organised – such as ending the dominance of the IPA and rightwing commentators on the ABC and combatting their commercial media outlets.
A source close to the drawing up of the strategy said: "We are not properly combatting the language of extremism.
The RAF is also flying planeloads of ammunition, rifles and machine guns from former Soviet bloc countries in eastern Europe into Irbil in order to strengthen the fighting power of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces who are combatting the jihadis.
Peabody says it has three objectives: combatting the crisis of global energy poverty, increasing access to low-cost electricity, and reducing emissions using today's advanced 'clean coal' technologies.
Greens and sceptics have argued long and hard about the overall economic costs of combatting global warming with estimates of the cost of stabilising emissions in rich countries ranging from zero to over 2% of GDP each year.
