Sentence examples for permanent combat from inspiring English sources

At first we seem to be in for a trad kitchen comedy: a cavernous Connemara cottage where, in Ultz's remarkable design, you can almost smell the damp and decay, and where the stout, 70-year-old Mag lives in a state of permanent combat with her resentful daughter, Maureen.

The conflict between ECM and ECCM is a permanent combat.

The Army Reserve is organised into permanent combat and support units, though most are currently manned at levels well below their authorised strengths and are not capable of deploying as formed units.

That left-right coalition did hold when Mr. Coffman proposed to remove the Army's permanent brigade combat teams stationed in Europe and replace them with a cheaper rotational force, not accompanied by family members, permanent housing and other support.

Earlier this week in Ecatepec, protestors demanded that the security measures put in place for the papal visit be made permanent to combat the daily robberies, kidnappings, extortion, homicide, lynching and a rash of femicides in Ecatepec and elsewhere in the state of Mexico, most of which are not investigated.

In one unexpected twist, Democrats on Friday helped pass a conservative Republican's amendment that would end the permanent deployment of combat brigades in Europe.

Meanwhile, young Honey is full of fury and in an almost permanent state of combat when faced with any kind of change.

Recalling the way in which the anti-semitic words of Hitler and others paved the way for the horrors of Nazism, she says: "This historical experience puts Germany under a permanent obligation to combat systematically every form of racism, anti-semitism and xenophobia.

Reseeding grasses into degraded cropland and using it as permanent secondary pasture may combat desertification and promote sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC).

In that event, A(H5N1) may claim its most significant casualties: political support and financial wherewithal for emerging programs to combat the permanent menace of pandemic influenza.

Klay writes with a powerful restraint about the inversion of normal reality called combat, its permanent effects on bodies and souls, but the best stories in "Redeployment" look at war from a slight distance.