Rabih Alameddine

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

Lebanese Artist

John Yoo

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

American Educator

Eric Burdon

On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

British Musician

Salman Rushdie

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

Indian Novelist

Thomas Hauser

Boxing is allowed to exist as an exception to state laws against violence on the premise that it will be regulated in a manner that protects the combatants physically and financially.

American Author

Heywood Broun

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

American Journalist

Fidel Castro

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

Statesman

Emmeline Pankhurst

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

English Activist

Michael Paterniti

At its height, Guantanamo's population of alleged combatants swelled to nearly 800.

American Writer

Peter Maurer

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

Swiss Activist

Use 'combatant' when referring to people directly engaged in warfare or specific conflicts.

Conflict Specific

'Combatant' is a neutral term and doesn't imply which side of the conflict the person is on.

Neutral Term

Distinguish between 'combatant' for fighters and 'non-combatant' for civilians or unarmed military personnel.

Non-Combatant Contrast

'Combatant' as an adjective suggests an active or immediate readiness for fighting.

Readiness to Fight

Use 'combatant' to describe participation in fighting rather than support roles or general aggression.

Active Involvement

Focus on military or warlike scenarios when using 'combatant' as an adjective.

Military Context

 It's not just recruiting combatants; it's trying to build a state. And what that means is all of a sudden, your recruitment model is much more broad. You're not just trying to get fighters -- now you need architects, engineers, accountants, hackers and women. We've actually seen a huge increase of women going

How young people join...

 mess through an election both could the combatants agreed let's lay down our weapons and see if we can't solve this peacefully and while we know that this is a hopeful time in society we also know that elections are really dangerous potentially very dangerous and deeply

How data helps us...

 are there to steal the terror birds prey but this is a challenger they've never seen they depend on instinct and spread out this is a battle for attention who can divert the attention of the other combatant and in which direction for how

Terror Bird vs. Wolves PIPE...

 people of all different colors and backgrounds and you know what the main ingredient that day was mutual respect we sat down with southern white folks as cousins rather than combatants you know what the ancestors who lived in those

Gastronomy and the...

 venom battles like this can go on for over a half an hour who's going to emerge the victor look at that heinie bike yikes oh wait a minute it looks like it's gonna be a draw each combatant

Animals Attack: Shrew...

 combatants died a terrible and early death these are men were done probably mostly in their 20s and most of the gladiators are dying in their first or second matches life was cheap in the

Brutal Gameplay PIPE When...

 venom battles like this can go on for over a half an hour who's going to emerge the victor look at that hiney bike yikes oh wait a minute it looks like it's gonna be a draw each combatant

Shrew vs. Snake PIPE...

 it's the newest aquatic extreme-sport cichlid fish mouth fighting before our next bout here's a brief tutorial on what it is and how it works our combatants square off face to face here

Fish Fight! PIPE National...

 Twentieth-century physics did create better explanations, but still in terms of a cosmic war. This time, the combatants were order and chaos, or entropy.

After billions of years...

 of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors