Sentence examples for street combat from inspiring English sources

Unaccustomed to street combat, the international art crowd found themselves inelegantly dodging clouds of tear gas as they milled from parties to private views.

Dheepan is as interested in the accretion of detail, and thereby understanding what makes a family unit work, as in the rituals of street combat – though, as he's shown in the past, Audiard is very good at that too.

You'll take down unmanned drone tanks in all-out street combat and it's a visually impressive affair with flashy neon explosions and slow-mo Burnout-style car takedowns, but halfway through the game you're forced to stealth-kill Cobra tanks which are by far the game's most frustrating, least Batman-like offering.

Marie du Mont in house-to-house and street combat, clearing the way for 8th Infantry, 3rd Battalion to advance up Causeway 2 practically unopposed.

As Jeremy Scahill argues in his excellent book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, the company's original contract in Iraq was to provide private security for Bremer, but a year into the occupation, it was engaging in all-out street combat.

That would force the Iraqi army and Kurdish forces to engage in bloody street-to-street combat.

After this particular fight, we walked the ground, and saw telltale signs that weeks of exposure to modern street-by-street combat had impressed upon the rebels ways to fight, and to survive.

Rebel commanders were defiant about their chances of repelling troops on the ground, pointing to years of resistance against a better-armed enemy and the advantages of battle-hardened opposition fighters in close street-to-street combat.

On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler and Braun committed suicide; Braun bit into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shot himself.

No matter how I justified my intentions, something about enjoying some faux-street-combat fun with members of an organization described by some as the "cat's paw" of Iran a group responsible for decades of attacks on Israel, countless kidnappings, and the 1983 bombing of an American military barracks in Beirut that killed 241 soldiers just seemed plain wrong.

But the fresh progress in the battle, led by Iraq's most elite counter-terrorism division, appears to signal a new phase in the conflict, moving from the sparsely populated villages on the outskirts of Mosul to heavily mined terrain inside the city that will likely be marked by heavy street fighting and urban combat.