Sentence examples for main combatant from inspiring English sources

War memorials, other than on the site of a battle, were relatively unusual until the 19th century, but became increasingly common during it, and after World War I were erected even in villages of the main combatant nations.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are the main combatants.

Jones's main combatants are Maj.

But why let the two main combatants join the same side before the battle begins?

Thanks in part to South Africa's tireless diplomacy, the main combatants have been pushed into signing a series of pacts, and most foreign troops have withdrawn from Congo.

Mr. Biden served for 36 years as a senator from Delaware, making him intimately familiar with the chamber, its rules and precedents, and the main combatants on the floor.

There was no history of antagonism between Mr. Washington and Mr. Tomjanovich; indeed, they were not the main combatants that night.

The tenor Par Lindskog was the hotheaded Albert Gregor, and the baritone Steven Page the surly Baron Prus -- the main combatants in the lawsuit.

The main combatants are the big-time bankers and businessmen who rallied round Mr Yeltsin to get him re-elected a year ago, but who have been reverting to old rivalries since.

The main combatants are the attorney general and federal prosecutors on one side and a network of public defenders, immigration and criminal defense lawyers, civil libertarians and some constitutional scholars on the other, with federal judges in between.

Angus Doulton Bere Ferrers, Devon Lizzie Collingham's The Taste of War (Penguin) examines how each of the main combatants in the second world war fed, or didn't feed, their fighting forces, civilian populations and conquered peoples.