"There are so many reports that Twitter is combating trolls.
In Pasadena, Calif., a team of retirees is combating identity theft — and, apparently, their own ennui.
Now the government claims it is combating acts of vandalism and terrorism by the BNP.
No. 1 on its list of legislative priorities is combating private school vouchers.
So, too, is combating the overbearing prescription that motherhood should and must be sacrificial.
Snowden is combating the creeping influence of state power into technology.
What he is doing, literally, is combating the calcification within his body.
François Fillon, the former prime minister, said that Mr. Hollande "is not a president who is combating the crisis but worsening it" through his economic policies.
The Pope is combating the complete takeover of society by free markets, the resulting death of empathy, and ultimately the soullessness of our current culture.
"One thing I'm proud of myself for doing is combating those feelings," she says, when those professed second thoughts are mentioned.
Yet very recently at the United Nations, the government pointed to habeas corpus reforms as evidence that it is combating torture.
