Sentence examples for hostile engagements from inspiring English sources

In fact, military legal experts say, they risk being treated as illegal combatants if they support military units in hostile engagements.

The death toll in the country among coalition troops this January has now risen to at least 23, all but one due to hostile engagements, according to icasualties.org, an independent organization that tracks military casualties, and reports from NATO military officials.

Harris even laid out the timeframe for when "hostile engagements" the US will participate in will begin, which he said demonstrates why the US still considers Afghanistan "as an area of active hostilities" and why al-Warafi is wrong to assume that the war is over and he should be released.

On 18 July, the hostile engagement of French and English ships by the English coast marked the beginning of the Battle of the Solent.

Indeed, freed from the constraints of having to balance its financial and political interests vis-à-vis Brussels and barring a sea change in European attitudes toward hostile military engagements, Moscow would be free to implement any political order it sees fit throughout its historic geographic buffer zone.

If blogging, at least in the U.S., was more of a conceptual rebellion a virtual uprising against a calcified media establishment that was often hostile to intellectual engagement and deaf to criticism Twitter is more usefully imagined not as a medium for writing, but as a cybernetic activity.

The revolt undermined — indeed, destroyed — two years of effort in Washington to move toward a policy of "engagement" with hostile and repressive regimes.

President Obama came into office vowing to seek engagement with hostile regimes, and several people in Burma quoted to me a phrase from his Inauguration speech: "We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist".

My own foray into the alpine abyss was triggered by a particularly hostile breakup, involving an engagement ring, a defaulted mortgage, and a gracious sprinkling of bankruptcy.

He also favors thoughtful diplomatic engagement with hostile nations, immigration reform, "spread the wealth" taxation, bailing out foreclosure victims, and so on.

The ICEP-R codes for the caregiver are Negative Engagement (further divided into withdrawn, hostile and intrusive), Non-Infant Focused Engagement, Social Monitor/No Vocalizations or Neutral Vocalizations, Social Monitor/Positive Vocalizations and Social Positive Engagement.