Sentence examples for day of combat from inspiring English sources

This statement not only supports the Israeli numbers, but it also acknowledges what Israel has long said about the 250 policemen who were killed on the first day of combat: they were "members of Hamas and the various factions" and were indeed "combatants" by any realistic definition of that term.

The AC-130 gunship -- as many as four are involved in the operation -- saw its third day of combat over Afghanistan.

"Hamas simply needs not to be broken and to carry on firing rockets until the last day of combat," said veteran military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai.

Each turn represents one day of combat: the player moves units and attacks enemy units, then watches while the enemy follows suit.

(At six feet two, Bazille towered in his milieu — and likely in enemy gun sights, when, on his first day of combat, he charged, and was shot dead, in the colorful uniform of a Zouave).

Having started out without a single day of combat experience, Cage slowly morphs into a battle-hardened veteran with the skills and knowledge to fend off the extraterrestrial Mimics.

April 16 , 20148.20pm BST For Slavyansk residents for whom overflights by Ukrainian military aircraft seemed to signal the imminent arrival of Ukrainian ground troops, the arrival Wednesday of combat vehicles bearing pro-Russian militia members instead made for a moment of confusion.

It was my first and worst day of urban combat.

But those walking into war, towards another day of brutal combat on Peleliu, do at least pause.

A detailed forensics inquiry by the Army's Criminal Investigation Command found that Corporal Tillman's death came after a day of heavy combat in eastern Afghanistan.

Here, the undeniably stirring pageantry and history of the famous regiment crashes into the violent present-day reality of combat in Iraq.