Sentence examples for year of combat from inspiring English sources

They'd just been through a year of combat.

After a year of combat, Mr. Sepi returned to Fort Carson, Colo., where life seemed dull and regimented.

After a year of combat and weeks of legislative brinksmanship, House Democrats and the White House clinched their victory only hours before the voting started on Sunday.

When the unit came back to Fort Drum in summer 2005 after more than a year of combat, Specialist Cherry sought psychiatric help at the base.

After a year of combat, the dying demon turns the colour of his milky blood to red by sorcery.

They were attending a ceremony that mixed solemnity with celebration, the commemoration of a year of combat that left scores of their enemies slain.

He endured two years of combat in Vietnam.

Either way, two more years of combat, two more years of sending the 1 percent of Americans serving in uniform to die and be wounded, is too long.

But Mr. Obama's victory that year over Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War hero, was in part a result of an electorate weary from years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

During the first two years of combat, weather permitting, the Salisbury camp was the site of daily baseball games by captured Northern soldiers.

There are grave concerns within the military about the capability of the U.S. Army to sustain two or three more years of combat in Iraq.