Sentence examples for mass combat from inspiring English sources

That mixture of tedium and spasm is invariably found in accounts of mass combat, and I can think of nobody better than Hillcoat to dramatize, say, the ferocious slog of Australian troops during their battle for New Guinea, in 1942.

The world needs someone who will champion marginalized people, protect civilians in conflict and prevent mass violations, combat impunity by supporting the International Criminal Court, fight for gender equality, defend activists against repressive governments and deal with the biggest global refugee crisis in seventy years.

Moscow argues that the plan to set up rotating battalions in Poland and the Baltic States would violate a 1997 agreement that Nato would not mass "substantial combat forces" in Europe.

1963 Castro Urges Americas Into Combat MIAMI — Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro fell into step with Communist China's hard line and urged revolutionaries throughout Latin America to "hurl the masses into combat".

President Bush said last week he was disappointed that King Hussein, an old friend, had not joined other Arab League leaders in condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and its massing of combat troops at the Saudi border.

Military officials rightly point out that stop-loss prevents a mass exodus of combat soldiers just before a combat tour.

But we never reached the critical mass required to combat the fatigue the issue now faces.

Every few minutes they would coagulate in a mass of heaving combat jackets, as if to reassure each other that nothing was happening: but that it would happen, by and by.

It was encouraging to read Jeffrey Toobin's story about the push by John Chisholm, the District Attorney in Milwaukee County, to combat mass incarceration and its grossly disproportionate impact on African-Americans ("The Milwaukee Experiment," May 11th).

Google recently announced company-wide bonuses and a 10% salary boost in order to combat mass defections.

That's why last year, Google.org launched a new, dedicated effort to support leaders who are doing critical work to end mass incarceration and combat endemic educational inequality for black and brown students".