Sentence examples for potential combatant from inspiring English sources

Every man, armed or unarmed, was a potential combatant and thus fair game.

Well, easy, I'm on the telephone, man, just leave us alone" — isn't addressed to a police officer or a potential combatant.

America is greatly concerned about the DPRK, but only because Washington still is involved in the peninsula as a potential combatant defending the South.

It seems much more plausible that they intended, as they said, to eliminate the men as potential combatants.

The Syrian regime says men aged between 15 and 55 are potential combatants, and the men were aware that they would be treated as such upon evacuation.

In Ain al-Helweh, a much larger camp with many more potential combatants, a similar conflict would most likely be a far more difficult fight.

While corporations and public utilities had long been viewed as the enemy in the environmental movement — an early motto at the defense fund was "Sue the bastards" — Mr. Graff showed a willingness to work with potential combatants.

While emphasizing they are not obsessed with such thoughts, players on both teams shyly concede that they have watched each other from afar, potential combatants sizing each other up.

"What are the issues?" Richard M. Miles, the American ambassador to Georgia, said in an interview last week that the United States had urged the potential combatants to disengage militarily and work toward negotiations.

This influx of potential combatants could finalize the ideological and strategic shift inside the Caucasus Emirate.

This allows potential combatants to assess the other's antlers, body size and fighting prowess.