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How to use combatants in a sentence

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Experienced combatants expressed sorrow for the fledgling recruits, generally draftees, brought in to fill vacancies.
Perfidy is a war crime, and it tempts combatants because perfidious military acts provide them with an advantage.
Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force.
The act of defining combatants is analogous to the military concept of choosing the terrain of battle.
Paramilitary operatives do not meet any of the prerequisites necessary to be considered lawful combatants.
I don't think it's a good idea to upgrade terrorists into lawful combatants.
Historically, the application of technology to weaponry has allowed combatants to fight at ever-increasing ranges and with greater lethality.
But while the traditional white uniforms still feature, and combatants still salute each other before a match, technology is ringing the changes.
The water roils around the combatants, and the sky is filled with clouds and tiny lines that intensify the sense of cataclysm.
He could only plea with them to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms.
Clerks from both of their firms circled around the trash-talking combatants, as if this were some kind of Wall Street rumble.
From the very outset all the combatants knew that the bomb would be both a weapon of destruction and a weapon of terror.
The two combatants charged at each other with weapons drawn and fought like savage beasts.
This course will draw from the Pallas Armata and build combatants able to fence competitively with the backsword.
A simple thought experiment shows how dangerous are the implications of treating them as combatants.
I watched in amazement as the two combatants traded blows and then there was a flash of lightening that dazzled my eyes.
Our service-men and women would probably suffer the same kind of traumas which have hit combatants from past conflicts.
Pressure from Miskito combatants compelled the Sandinista government to recognize the coast's diversity and distinct identity.
It didn't ultimately matter and nothing did apart from the outcome of a showpiece the combatants entered at biorhythmic opposites.
By carrying sidearms, contractor employees run the risk of being seen as unlawful combatants.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the cave dweller's time, combatants used a stone hatchet which was the best weapon that science could produce.
One of the combatants was the city of Athens, the other was the great island of Atlantis.
At that moment the wind dropped, and the combatants were suspended in mid-air.
A stickler was a sidesman to a fencer, so called because he carried a stick, wherewith to part the combatants.
A little later the group of lads had adjourned to a field, and Paul and jacker appeared as combatants.
Again and again Mr jager had to order the combatants to desist, and shouted to the Frenchmen to throw down their weapons.
Thus, for some undiscernible reason, duels are not infrequent, which generally end in the death of one or both combatants.
When the combatants are discovered in their illegal and unwitnessed fight, Palamon does not fear death.
It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.
They showed themselves in battles hovering over the heads of the combatants in the form of a carrion crow.
The summer passed away with many but undecisive battles, until the storms of the long northern winter separated the combatants.
The contest continued, the combatants clinched each other, and panted and groaned, and rolled among the rocks.
And since he was hired Ian has commentated on bouts and interviewed combatants in Japan, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Holland, Finland and Britain.
Covered as they were with dust and blood, the swift evolutions of the combatants seemed to incorporate their bodies into one.
Six navvies, three to the man, jumped and grabbed the combatants.
This short speech was received with applause by the combatants.
Human Rights Watch noted that under the laws of war, attacks may only be directed at military objectives, such as enemy combatants.
The watch might come up and take all the combatants, wounded or not, royalists or cardinalists.
Hollywood is selling us a bill of goods in suggesting that a war becomes good through the bravery and loyalty of its combatants.
Reconciliation was impossible in the excited state of the combatants.
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