Sentence examples for death in action from inspiring English sources

Subsequently, Graves's comic account of his own misreported death in action is another famous high point.

Before his death in action he responded to 42 IED tasks, personally dealing with 70 confirmed IEDs.

In her private life, she bore with fortitude the loss of relatives under persecution in Germany, and the death in action of a son in the Korean War.

In 1823 24 Laing fought in the war between the British and the Asante empire and returned to England with the news of M'Carthy's death in action.

His death in action during World War I took the spirit out of his father, who died of pneumonia in 1919.

The death in action of the commanding officer of the Welsh Guards is a great sadness to his family, friends and his community in the regiment and the army.

In Washington, the Pentagon tonight confirmed two more deaths in action -- those of Cpl.

"They [the Afghans] thrashed the Russians, and they're going to thrash us again".The British public has long been accustomed to the deaths in action of its servicemen.

This over-swift rotation of power (together with the continuing violence of the insurgency) is blamed by many in Iraq for the creeping pace of rebuilding the country's infrastructure and has added to a general sense of the ineffectiveness of the state.Meanwhile, the death of an army sergeant from wounds suffered in an earlier blast has pushed American deaths in action in Iraq above the 2,000-mark 2,000-mark

In 1995, he successfully portrayed Richard III onscreen as a snarling, 1930s fascist, but before that McKellen's biggest movie role to date had probably been as Death, in Last Action Hero.

Bavelier chalks up the change to "neural plasticity --the ability of our brains to rewire themselves to more efficiently visually plasticity --the-or-death scenes in action video games.