Sentence examples for combatting a from inspiring English sources
Combatting a global environmental problem like climate change would seem to require global coöperation.
Now I have the privilege of representing Stoke-on-Trent in parliament – supporting the revival of the pottery industry, working to improve the city's education results, combatting a legacy of poor public health.
This system came from combatting a truth of traditional video games – that the player, through in direct control of the character, always has the ability to subvert, halt and break the story.
Just as too much medication is not necessarily more effective in combatting a disease, but might even be dangerous, such is the case with excessive reporting, compliance and other bureaucratic requirements for scientists.
Incidental Intelligence: The Department of State is in receipt of a message from one of its representatives in Mudken reporting that the Northeast Bandit Suppression Headquarters, an agency of the Chinese government in Manchuria, has asked for American aid in combatting a plague of aphids.
"The Pocket Guide" — a five-by-seven-inch seventy-five-page book in which art works are paired with dry, sometimes facile descriptions of how the American government functions — is an experiment in combatting a "lack of interest and engagement in the electoral process among creative professionals," by providing basic definitions of things like lobbyists, gun control, and the electoral college.
First, one combatted a visible and immediate problem (pain); the other combatted an invisible problem (germs) whose effects wouldn't be manifest until well after the operation.
But that's a far cry from saying you should chew bark to combat a tumour.
"We're dealing with sophisticated requirements for photo I.D. to combat a nonexistent voter fraud.
When superheroes team up in comic books, they typically combat a great evil.
