Sentence examples for continuous combat from inspiring English sources

The proper standard for attacking a person under the laws of war is whether the person has a "continuous combat function" or is "directly participating in hostilities".

"Every man has his breaking point," said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of continuous combat could turn any soldier into a psychiatric casualty.

Like the Hohenstaufen, he had risen through a lucky marriage and continuous combat into the first rank of dynasts; but, unlike them, he had served the cause of the Saxon opposition to the Salians.

From August 8 until its withdrawal from the line in October, the Australian Corps was in almost continuous combat as the spearhead of the British Expeditionary Force's advance to victory.

Over millions of years, biological subjects have been in continuous combat with extreme environmental conditions.

He was in continuous combat with his archrival, A.M. Rosenthal, the executive editor of the New York Times.

MAG is meant to allow up to 256 players to simultaneously occupy one continuous modern-combat battlefield.

My service in war was one of the longest continuous tours of combat by a physician since World War II.

The crew had three 4 inches pumps and two 2 inches pumps in continuous service to combat the flooding.

This development was either in response to continuous impacts during combat, or to hormones released when individuals paired up and acquired territories.

"Mental maintenance" needs to become part of military culture, so that our men and women in uniform can cope with an environment of continuous, long deployments in combat – and with the invisible mental scars.