Sentence examples for fighting soil from inspiring English sources

After spending four decades fighting soil erosion and shoring up levees, the 65-year-old geotechnical engineer could only watch as the recession caused the business of his longtime employer, Ayres Associates, to evaporate last year.

Air attacks are among the most important instruments of modern warfare, and Air Force and Navy pilots surely qualify as combat troops; and it's hard to see a meaningful distinction between "fighting on foreign soil" and bombing foreign soil.

"It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil," he insisted.

The constitution of the Philippines bars foreign troops from fighting on Philippine soil.

Opponents of the manoeuvres argue that the constitution prohibits foreign troops from fighting on Philippine soil.

It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil," he said.

He has also said in the past that the US plan to defeat Islamic State would not "involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil".

Even though there are many American children whose relatives, like Odysseus, are fighting on foreign soil, "Telemaca" will never be as easy to sell as "Cinderella".

The Thai move means a further intensification of the fighting on Cambodian soil, with all the destruction and loss of civilian life that entails.

The president himself said tonight that the campaign against ISIS "will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil". Such arguments are difficult to credit.

But similar, if more nuanced, promises were made a year later when Obama announced airstrikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq but claimed the effort would "not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil".