Sentence examples for state of combat from inspiring English sources

The current state of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan should underscore the importance of memory.

Talk story about "pickling" ships; bringing them to a state of combat readiness and sealing them up.

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

The New Yorker, July 12 , 1947P. 17 Talk story about "pickling" ships; bringing them to a state of combat readiness and sealing them up.

By Rex Lardner and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, July 12 , 1947P. 17 Talk story about "pickling" ships; bringing them to a state of combat readiness and sealing them up.

He played Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola's take on the gruesome state of combat in the Vietnam war, no doubt tapping into his brief real-life army stint during the Korean war.

Good artists are often in a state of combat-readiness.

Baseball, unlike games of flow like hockey, soccer and basketball, is a series of episodes -- of what Schwarz calls "measurable states of combat".

The piazza is an elegant square with a white 19th-century obelisk in the middle depicting four lions in various states of combat (dead, wounded, stable, fighting), each commemorating a different battle in Neapolitan history.

Libya now exists in a state of perpetual combat between numerous warlords and their militias, has become a springboard for ISIS, and has destabilized much of North Africa.

The closest that the DD-2796 comes to asking about killing is the question "Were you engaged in direct combat where you discharged your weapon?" Retired Colonel Harry Holloway, who was an Army psychiatrist for thirty years, told me that the Army would benefit from knowing a lot more about the mental state of its combat troops.