Sentence examples for training for fighting from inspiring English sources

His much-derided comment that battling public-sector unions is good training for fighting terrorists ("If I can take on a hundred thousand protestors, I can do the same across the world") was a warmup, it turned out, for his also-derided claim that his tenure as a teen-age Eagle Scout led him to "be prepared" for the dispatch of soldiers into battle.

Not really the career I trained for, fighting other adult males over the fall harvest".

• PETA argued that dogs trained for fighting should be destroyed because they are unsafe and unserviceable.

He is a member of the white racist Aryan Brotherhood and was running the scheme in which vicious dogs were bred and trained for fighting or for guarding illegal laboratories that produce methamphetamine for the Mexican Mafia, prison officials say.

While disagreeing on what to do about the war in Iraq, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have both said they would expand the number of soldiers and marines, and ensure that ground forces are properly equipped and trained for fighting insurgencies and terrorists.

"The American forces are well trained for fighting wars, but the British have more experience in internal security," said Paul Rees, managing director of Centurion, a British company with many American media companies as clients.

Upon seeing the effectiveness of these troops, Charles Minot Dole, the president of the National Ski Patrol, began to lobby the War Department of the need for a similar unit of troops in the United States Army, trained for fighting in winter and mountain warfare.

Though the Chicago City Council has as recently as 2007 mulled a ban on pit bulls and other dogs sometimes trained for fighting, Travis described such action as a "kneejerk reaction" and told the Sun-Times she is "hesitant to malign an entire breed".

"When they want to train them for fighting, they inject them with steroids, and because they don't take the dogs to a vet, where they could be reported, they do their own work on the dogs so they're going to have antibiotics, bandages — the same things that would be used in a veterinary practice to medicate the dogs who are scarred, cut and bloodied".

The division was the first army division to train specifically for fighting in nighttime conditions.

He was called back two years later to lead an 11-man Oregon National Guard training team responsible for fighting alongside a 35-man unit of the Afghan Army.