Sentence examples for enemy combatant from inspiring English sources

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enemy combatant

noun

Any person in an armed conflict who may be properly detained under the laws and customs of war.

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He was held as an enemy combatant".

The term "enemy combatant" perplexed her.

"You are not an enemy combatant," the judge said.

"How am I an enemy combatant?" he asked in 2006.

"People are starting to understand that that just by calling someone an enemy combatant doesn't make them an enemy combatant.

For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant.

He is, instead, being held as an "enemy combatant".

Instead of case law, we have the enemy combatant cases.

He is being held in Charleston as an enemy combatant.

He has the power to define what "enemy combatant" means.

The "enemy combatant" concept is a slippery one.

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