Sentence examples for they were combatants from inspiring English sources

They were combatants, dying on battlefields.

"We were concerned that they were dressed as aid workers, driving unmarked vehicles, with no weapons showing, with no evidence that they were combatants," said Robert A. Goodwin, local program director for Mercy Corps, one of the largest private aid groups here.

It's a war, they're combatants, we're combatants, we take them out.

"Unless ISIS is actually flying a flag that says 'ISIS' across the top of it, then it's sometimes... difficult to tell... whether they're combatants or not," said Gen. Herbert Carlisle, the head of Air Combat Command, which oversees nearly all U.S. warplanes.

Some were combatants, many others were children.

No matter their innocence, men who are released are transported to their destinations in shackles and informed that they are 'no longer an enemy combatant.' (They were 'enemy combatants' while at Guantánamo simply because they were designated as such by the president. The term has no other meaning).

They may argue that they are conspiring or they may someday be combatants, but if that is the same standard that we are going to use in the United States, it is a far different country than I know about".

Comedians are combatants: they "kill," they "bomb," they "destroy".

Rather, they were defiant combatants.

There had already been a finding they were enemy combatants.

Further, as they were not combatants it was considered neither just nor necessary to take them prisoner.