Sentence examples for directly fighting from inspiring English sources

"The fighters I was speaking with said they were directly fighting Hezbollah," he said.

Until 1965, we had military advisors, we had spent a lot of money, but we weren't directly fighting the Viet Cong.

In an interview aired on Al Jazira (Doha, Qatar) television, he stated: "Our enemy is every American male, whether he is directly fighting us or paying taxes".

Eventually, according to this argument, the United States could be drawn into directly fighting the rebels, who have joined forces with the narcotics traffickers.

Rather than directly fighting them, I believe it is time for HIV and other blood-borne viruses, such as hepatitis C, to be redefined as the responsibility of the NHS.

He said he was especially eager to put many of the 373 officers now in jobs not directly fighting crime onto street duty, and replacing them with lower-paid civilians.

Troops and civilians involved directly in fighting in the Veneto region suffered badly, but malaria also surged elsewhere.

"For 37 years," he wrote, Hoover had "sought to avoid any assignment that would involve the F.B.I. directly" with fighting organized crime.

Instead, Clegg implied that it was the Lib Dems who were the insurgent underdogs, because they were confronting the "Eurosceptic establishment" directly by fighting on an unashamedly pro-European platform.

Mr. Belnick, a former star litigator more accustomed to addressing juries directly, is fighting charges that he stole millions of dollars from Tyco in the form of unauthorized bonuses and that he failed to disclose millions of dollars in loans he took from the company.

Critics of the plan have argued that the military aid would merely intensify the conflict in which two rebel groups have joined forces with narcotics traffickers against the government, a conflict that could eventually draw the United States directly into fighting the rebels.