Sentence examples for had been combating from inspiring English sources

Although police had been combating terrorism long before 2001, the magnitude of the September 11 attacks and of subsequent acts of terrorism in other countries (including Spain, Britain, Morocco, and Egypt) showed that conventional tactics were no longer adequate.

On April 4, in the cruelest irony, Aniru Conteh died of a virus that he had been combating as a physician for most of his life, a patient in a ward that he had been instrumental in establishing and maintaining.

More than 30,000 troops, assisted by the Pakistani Air Force, have been combating Taliban fighters.

The Government says that it has been combating human trafficking by pushing through the Modern Slavery Bill.

Verbal and rhetorical excess are generally how novelists have been combating the surfeit of appetite they spy in America.

"For me it's quite interesting because my whole journey has been combating [soft bigotry]." By way of illustration he offers the example of his time at school.

While the country's political chaos has been grabbing international attention, the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture has been combating locust swarms countrywide: in Cairo, Upper Egypt, the Canal area, the Red Sea governorate, El Arish and other border areas in the Sinai Peninsula.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Royal Thai Army, Thailand's largest military unit, has been combating a violent insurgency in the far southern provinces, where the people are mainly Malay-speaking Muslims.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, speaking at a news conference on Saturday, hailed the operation as a "fine victory" for French authorities which have been combating a rise in drugs shipments in recent months.

Further weakening of the single currency seems likely.All this makes the ECB's foray into QE less like the programmes launched by the Fed and the Bank of England at the height of the crisis and more like those of the Bank of Japan, which has been combating the more insidious threat of deflation.

The price increase followed news of rising conflict close to major crude oil pipelines in northern Iraq, where Turkey has been combating Kurdish rebels.