Sentence examples for left the fighting from inspiring English sources

In the Kabul attack, a NATO spokesman said that the international forces tracked the situation through the night but left the fighting to the Afghans until early Wednesday when the International Security Assistance Force was called in.

The French left the fighting to the Malian army for most of the day as a test of their combat abilities.

UNICEF estimates that there a total of 8,000 former child soldiers in Afghanistan, many of whom have already left the fighting forces informally over the past year.

Thousands of exhausted and frightened stragglers left the fighting to seek shelter in large buildings.

Siener said he saw no houses left – the fighting would be so fierce that those who remained alive would be living only in tents.

Long after they leave the fighting on the battlefield, why should they have to fight to go to college?

Will adding American troops — at a million dollars a year per soldier — encourage Afghans to fight for themselves or prompt them to leave the fighting to us? Can Afghanistan's nominal government, with its President elected by fraud and its recent rating as the second most corrupt on earth, be finessed or somehow remade?

By leaving the fighting to imaginary characters, we can experience drama without getting involved.

But the units of the regular army that defected seem to have stayed largely out of the fray, leaving the fighting to untrained youths.

The controversy comes as the American military prepares to withdraw, leaving the fighting to Iraq's soldiers and police officers, who continue to take casualties from insurgent attacks almost daily, and who face those dangers without the comfort of knowing that their country will care for them and honor their sacrifices if they are hurt.

Second, many of the best athletes were also soldiers whose commanders did not want them to leave the fighting.