Sentence examples for in the combatants from inspiring English sources

The Ukrainian authorities were condemned for keeping the airspace over eastern Ukraine open, despite evidence that planes had started to be shot down at much higher altitudes than before – in other words that there had been a change in the combatants' capability.

England-France matches tend to bring out the confrontational in the combatants; a remembrance of bloodied battles and punches past; an animosity at odds with the modern relationship between the two nations.

During World War One, in Flanders in Belgium, Picardy in northeast France, and around Gallipoli in Turkey, the combatants fought each other in appalling conditions.

Hitherto, in dealing with international ruffians like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi, or in keeping the combatants separated in Bosnia or Kosovo, the U.S. and Britain have fought lonely battles.

Opinion polling shows little support in the combatant countries for continuing, and still less for escalating through either bombing non-military targets or the deployment of regular ground forces (the irregulars already being there, we can assume).

A corrugated core sandwich panel model in the combatant deckhouse of a naval ship is adopted in the optimum study.

Here in Olympia, the combatants were men of spare build and thinning hair.

With that in mind, the combatants probably could not have been better picked.

In theory, the combatants are supposed to receive some vocational training during their stay.

Tennis is often compared to boxing because in each, the combatants are left alone to duke it out.

His defence against Bobby Dykes in a racially segregated Miami on February 4 1952 was the city's first title bout in which the combatants were black and white.