Sentence examples for definition of combat from inspiring English sources

The consultation is a first step and will look at how the scheme would work as well as trying to find agreement on a definition of combat.

Though women have long been technically barred from serving in the proverbial trenches, modern warfare's definition of combat – especially in the Middle East – is very much a gray area.

The New York Times reported that your definition of "combat" has been "rejected by virtually every military expert" since "advisers" can be on the front lines, carry weapons and call in air strikes.

To redress repeated rulings by the supreme court which narrowed the definition of combat activity, the Knesset passed an amendment to the law on compensation claims which widened it.

"It's a bit like the definition of combat: 59 minutes of boredom followed by a minute of sheer terror," says Michael Youngblood, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, an investment bank.

A June 2009 document indicates that GCHQ appeared to accept the expanded US definition of combat zones, referring to the agency's ability to provide "tactical and strategic SIGINT [signals intelligence] support to military operations in-theatre, notably Iraq and Afghanistan, but increasingly Pakistan".

We also included alternative definitions of combat-related PTSD using criteria from both DSM-III and DSM-III-R.

When comparable methods were applied to available data we reconciled disparate results and estimated similar current prevalences for both narrow and broad definitions of combat-related diagnoses of PTSD.

He argues for an extension of the definition of combatant to include those who arm themselves and engage in combat roles.

(A pretty good definition of what combat forces are for, actually).

Gilad Grossman, the spokesman for Yesh Din, said that number calls into question the Israeli military's definition of what a "combat" situation is, since many of the incidents involved an attempted stabbing, not an active war zone.