Sentence examples for in continuous combat from inspiring English sources

Over millions of years, biological subjects have been in continuous combat with extreme environmental conditions.

He was in continuous combat with his archrival, A.M. Rosenthal, the executive editor of the New York Times.

Even under IHL, you can't kill civilians (those not operating as forces of a warring State) unless they're directly participating in hostilities, or in a "continuous combat function".

Nations cannot lawfully target and kill suspected terrorists unless they pose an imminent threat to that nation, or unless that nation is at war and the target is directly participating in hostilities, or in a continuous combat function.

From August 8 until its withdrawal from the line in October, the Australian Corps was in almost continuous combat as the spearhead of the British Expeditionary Force's advance to victory.

In war, persons who directly participate in hostilities or who perform a continuous combat function in an armed group are targetable, and bin Laden certainly was the latter, if not the former.

The proper standard for attacking a person under the laws of war is whether the person has a "continuous combat function" or is "directly participating in hostilities".

"Every man has his breaking point," said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of continuous combat could turn any soldier into a psychiatric casualty.

Both the CIA and the Pentagon maintain separate drone operations; the Pentagon alone operates 61 continuous combat air patrols over foreign soil with drones, a number that will grow to 65 in the coming months.

Morale of the two divisions was low, owing to repeated air attacks on equipment and overall exhaustion from continuous combat.

The development of novel antibiotics is extremely important because of the continuous combat against antibiotic resistant bacteria.