Sentence examples for states of combat from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

On putting Russia's nuclear weapons into a state of combat readiness, Mr Putin said: "We were ready to do this".

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

She said that state officials are concerned that a rewrite of the rules could destroy the ability of the states to combat consumer fraud and eliminate the special funds used to provide services in neglected areas.