Sentence examples for did combat from inspiring English sources

They seldom went to war anymore; their racers — bred out of the great trinity of sires the Godolphin Arabian, the Byerley Turk, and the Darley Arabian — did combat for them.

As van Creveld notes, during the entire 45-year conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, not once did combat aircraft of the two countries directly fight each other as part of their own air forces (though Soviet pilots did fight Americans as part of the Chinese and North Korean air forces).

He writes: "The degree to which a squad or platoon in combat becomes calloused toward the enemy that they are facing is almost always high," said Andrew M. Exum, a former Army officer who did combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington policy group.

"The degree to which a squad or platoon in combat becomes calloused toward the enemy that they are facing is almost always high," said Andrew M. Exum, a former Army officer who did combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington policy group.

The best combat dramas -- like John Ford's "They Were Expendable" and William Wellman's "Story of G.I. Joe" -- managed to satisfy both demands, as did combat documentaries by leading Hollywood directors like Ford's "Battle of Midway," John Huston's "Battle of San Pietro" and William Wyler's "Memphis Belle".

Did combat of that time produce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Many in the military already understand that many women can do combat jobs as well as men, if not better, but none have the chance to prove it.

Marsalis has been described as brash and argumentative, and he has certainly seemed eager to do combat in the arena of jazz criticism.

If you get a high score, you do combat, a middling score is combat support.

We need more of them in this world; we already have enough warriors and athletes doing combat.

The stronger the labor movement, the stronger the forces that can do combat with the status quo.