Sentence examples for engaged in active combat from inspiring English sources

(Consider that NATO is engaged in active combat in Afghanistan, a country bordering a former Soviet republic).

Though few of them actually engaged in active combat, their contribution to the revolution by providing for the everyday needs of the soldiers is well recognised.

And with Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebels still engaged in active combat despite a theoretical cease-fire, trust is in short supply.

Police/Law Enforcement 9. (SBU) Although Pakistani security forces are now engaged in active combat against extremists, they lack the capability to deal with militants and criminal activity in the FATA and NWFP.

When Islamic State entered Makhmour the battle-hardened PKK fighters are said to have volunteered to take the front line, ahead of the Peshmerga, who had not been engaged in active combat for years.

Besides the thousands of military "advisers" currently in Iraq, covert funding of rebels in Syria, and drone strikes across the Middle East, the Defense Department has a "specialized expeditionary targeting force" engaged in active combat missions in both Iraq and Syria.

Some fungal species engage in active combat and mutual parasitism (Vajna 2003); such pairings could be used to investigate both the traits important in ability to parasitize and to resist invasion, and the influence of such traits on community assembly.

It's a medal given to soldiers "who personally fought in active ground combat... engaged in active ground combat, to close with and destroy the enemy with direct fires".

It was unclear if they were engaged in active negotiations.

We are engaged in active discussions with the British government.

The students were engaged in active learning.