'frontlines' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe the position of soldiers, police officers, health care workers, members of political movements, and others at the forefront of a conflict or important issue. For example, "The frontline healthcare workers in the fight against the coronavirus are risking their own lives to protect and save others."
And Somalia's wars, conducted in shopping malls or in the frontlines around Kismayo, appear to be far from over.
This book is a tour around some of the most important and dangerous frontlines of what many historians now call the fourth world war.
Dow, who was on the frontlines when inflation was serious (25% in 1975) kept a diary – against the wishes of the governor of the time, Gordon Richardson, who, I am pretty certain, would have granted him a posthumous pardon if he had read this remarkable book.
At both the Kenyan and Sierra Leonean bases I slept only 200 yards from the Amisom frontlines.
Jim Harman, a 46-year-old Dallas resident and business owner, said he had attended the event the previous night to support Geller, the Dutch far-right populist politician Geert Wilders and "those who are on the frontlines giving clarity to the situation" – that is, those who are declaring that Islam and civil society are fundamentally incompatible.
On Tuesday, pro-Russia forces seized parts of Debaltseve in intense street fighting, ignoring the shaky ceasefire agreement, as a deadline for removing heavy weapons from the frontlines went unheeded.
The slippery genius of "the war on terror" is that without frontlines and without tangible objectives, there's no need to guard against injuries sustained by friendly fire.
Mary Kay Henry, president of the SEIU, said: "It's time for McDonald 'sto respect the workers on the frontlines as much as they have respected shareholders by putting $30bn in their pockets over the last 10 years".
ON OBSERVING that most injured soldiers die before receiving medical attention, Dominique-Jean Larrey, a young French military surgeon in Napoleon's army, proposed installing surgical teams near the frontlines.
The winter snows that blanket Afghanistan's mountains have for now quietened the frontlines.
Thousands more are trapped along the frontlines inside the city, under fire, packed in with rotting corpses, and unable to find a way out.
