Sentence examples for single combatant from inspiring English sources

Now that not a single combatant of that war lives on, now that it has crossed the border from memory into history, it's left to the heirs and descendants of those who served and those who fell to march in their name.

Concerns have included advances in anti-tank technology which can allow a single combatant to damage, or destroy, a big, expensive tank with a relatively low-cost handheld weapon.

Despite the temperatures, suffocating costumes, and below-average levels of physical fitness, not a single combatant passed out or vomited.

Beneath are the sinister words: "MILES OF SMILES!" The most notable PDF in Bickelmeyer's arsenal is his patent for "A Gift for Children," which is what he calls an "orbital weapons system" that would direct "magnified sunrays" to "eliminate a single combatant with the variable to eliminate entire countries".

And yet since 9/11, not a single enemy combatant has been tried to judgment by military tribunal or released over executive branch objection.

On top of these problems, the memorandum noted, the project's 2009 annual report failed to mention that not a single former combatant had completed the reintegration program at that time, raising questions as to whether the project intended to mislead donors.

John Brennan, the president's counter-terrorism adviser, said in a recent speech that not a single non-combatant had been killed in a year of drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"I assure you that there is not a single guerrilla, neither combatant nor commander, who has expressed any disagreement," Rodrigo Londoño said in the interview, broadcast on Venezuelan news broadcaster TeleSur on Tuesday night, referring to the recent acceleration of moves towards demobilization.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that it had received not a single report of combatants or civilians killed by fighting in any areas covered by the truce.

Boxing is single-minded: the combatants spend every minute of every round trying to punch while not getting punched; Mayweather, in particular, loves to frustrate his opponents by standing at what looks like a punchable distance and then suddenly darting or twisting out of range.

10 Former Foes Join to Lead Sudan Sudan elevated a former leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, John Garang, to the vice presidency of the government he had long tried to overthrow, a merging of onetime combatants into a single leadership that took Sudan another step away from decades of war.