Sentence examples for intensifying combat from inspiring English sources

Fifty years ago this weekend, Vietcong guerrillas launched a raid that drew the U.S. into intensifying combat in southeast Asia.

Far from expressing any second thoughts about his campaign, Mr. Nader seemed energized today by his intensifying combat with the Democratic Party.

It was that assault — even more than the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August , 1964— that drew the U.S. into active, intensifying combat in Vietnam, making Pleiku "one of the most momentous events of the Sixties," according to the historian James T. Patterson.

Refugees fleeing the intensifying combat in southern Colombia are also showing up and, as if in anticipation of the Washington-backed anti-drug offensive the Colombian government is to begin soon, affluent Colombians with no ties to this area are suddenly buying up land and stocking up on chemicals used to process cocaine.

— After a decade of waging long-distance war through their video screens, America's drone operators are burning out, and the Air Force is being forced to cut back on the flights even as military and intelligence officials are demanding more of them over intensifying combat zones in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

In fact, despite an increase in airstrikes and intensified combat operations, this week has been an especially deadly one for NATO troops.

"We took advantage of the continued influence that we did have," particularly with regard to the intensified combat in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Aid Organizations welcome ECOWAS Health Ministers call to intensify fight against malnutrition Dakar, Senegal, 25 August 2009 - A broad Alliance of aid organizations, collaborating to combat malnutrition in West Africa, welcomes the new ECOWAS Assembly of Health Ministers nutrition resolution in the fight against child malnutrition.

Now state and federal authorities are intensifying efforts to combat these schemes while also reminding consumers that legitimate services are free and widely available.

Representatives from the companies said they had trained their employees to help these women and have been intensifying campaigns to combat harassment.

You can't treat an acqui-hire as a solution to a technical capability gap or a way to quickly combat an intensifying competitive threat.