Sentence examples for enter a combat from inspiring English sources

Her presidential bid would have been heavily defeated were it not for her capture while trying to enter a combat zone from which everybody had asked her to stay away.

The UN force has insisted that the troops did not enter a combat area.

Soon after, during a trip to South Vietnam, Pat became the first First Lady to enter a combat zone.

She accompanied the President as the first First Lady to visit China and the Soviet Union and her solo trips to Africa and South America gained her recognition as "Madame Ambassador"; she was the first First Lady to enter a combat zone as well.

He criticised the student and the other activists for putting themselves in harm's way by entering a combat zone.

The investigation concluded that Corrie's death was an accident and that she had endangered herself by entering a combat zone.

Seven settlers were arrested by the army for illegally entering a combat zone.

Exiting your car to go into a grocery store was like entering a combat zone, and many people ran rather than walked.

The convoy was seized by over 30 rebels after it allegedly entered a rebel combat zone near the UN-designated demilitarized zone which separates the Israeli and Syrian borders.

When and if fighters enter a city, they need "overwhelming combat power" -- not to level the city but to capture or destroy crucial targets with such "speed, firepower and shock" that resistance collapses.

Despite my rudimentary understanding of the language, most evenings, after lights-out, I would sneak away to the platoon storage room, where I could take a leave from my small miseries — the bullying of the officers, the dreariness of the combat drills — and enter a world filled with dramas of love and death and madness.