Sentence examples for simply desert from inspiring English sources

It's brutal: both the rebels and Mr Taylor's men criss-cross the border with Sierra Leone to encircle their opponents, steal food, abduct slaves or simply desert.

Of course, this was not simply desert, but desert war -- which probably moves the bar for complaints to an even higher level.

The Western Army, although still strong, refused to advance further to the East due to the presence of Parliamentarian forces within Dorset and Cornwall; the Army's commanders felt that, if they tried to push for such a move, their forces would either mutiny or simply desert.

And, as Addam's potted plant shows, the genre quickly became so familiar as to permit metajokes--desert-island cartoons whose subject is not isolation or erotic liberation or the persistence of habit but, simply, desert-island cartoons.

Has his magic touch simply deserted him, or are Cowell's talents simply not suited to this particular entertainment arena?

Scores more have reportedly been killed for refusing to shoot at unarmed protesters, and others have simply deserted and gone into hiding.

The strongest evidence that people use to claim Bergdahl was simply deserting with no higher purpose other than getting the hell out of there, was that he had apparently discussed his desire to flee numerous times before he actually did it – even talking about it before he arrived in Afghanistan.

As a result, many soldiers simply deserted rather than fight.

While all of the direct evidence given by eyewitnesses supports the findings of the Court of Inquiry, some historians and writers debate whether or not Burnham, Ingram and Gooding really were sent back by Wilson to fetch help, and suggest that they might have simply deserted when the battle got rough.

More Mozart can be heard on Sunday afternoon at TOWN HALL, as the CURTIS ORCHESTRA and soloists perform his Sinfonia Concertante (K. 364), a peerless study in the dialogical sublime, or more simply put: desert island Mozart.

Opponents to the invasion claim annihilating such helpless people for no good reason is going to set the entire Arab world into an anti-American rage that will be more like the apocalypse than simply another Desert Storm.