Sentence examples for just combatants from inspiring English sources

Whatever acts are permissible for those who fight in a just war ("just combatants") are also permissible for those ("unjust combatants") who fight for aims that are unjust.

While just combatants are usually justified in attacking unjust combatants, unjust combatants are seldom justified in attacking just combatants.

Just combatants arrive and attack them as a means of stopping the slaughter.

The main exception is when just combatants are acting impermissibly, for example by pursuing their just goals by impermissible means.

This account of defensive rights accords no significance to the distinction between wrongful aggressors and their victims, or between unjust and just combatants.

Both just combatants and unjust combatants act impermissibly only if they violate the rules of jus in bello — that is, only if they fight in an impermissible manner.

There is no scenery, no props — just four combatants having at one another in ways both visceral and ritualized.

So the Uighurs languished at Guantánamo until Tuesday, no longer enemy combatants, just prisoners of cowardice.

EverQuest's online combatants, just to name one subset of this group, play 20 hours a week, on average.

These revisionists therefore accept that it is necessary, at least at present, for the law of war to retain a code of jus in bello that is symmetrical between just and unjust combatants.

As the ring cleared of superfluous souls to leave just the two combatants and their third man, Kevin Rooney leaned over the top rope to hug his charge and whisper some final words of wisdom.