The mission may be peacekeeping, nation assistance, support for insurgency and counterinsurgency, noncombatant evacuation, or humanitarian aid and disaster relief. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
They have a terrific capability in non-combatant evacuation operations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001] Reference
The law permitted these to enter a special so-called non-combatant classification. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
But I grudge leaving them to the imagination of civilian and non-combatant readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
It was useless for his attendant friends to assert that he had been a non-combatant. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
No one today has to be a passive non-combatant in the important moments of our culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Wikileaks Incident: How Social Media has Changed Warfare Coverage] Reference
There is not a road in the county not marked with the blood of some soldier or non-combatant. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
The rebels had ample supplies of rice, buffaloes, etc., stolen from the non-combatant natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It's weapons that can be used to sort through some of these combatant/non-combatant situations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2003] Reference
This was to bamboozle me, I thought, the only non-combatant present, but occasionally he stumbled. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
The non-combatant farmer found it extremely difficult to steer a course inoffensive to either side. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
So that's less than half saying that non-combatant civilians should be treated with dignity and respect. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2007] Reference
Thus to many a non-combatant the medical staff was called to minister, and the veldt to provide a grave. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
"Rod" as he was known, like his father, Elijah Pile, was a non-combatant, but sympathized with the North. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
In each regiment is a non-combatant company, in which all men required for duty without arms are mustered. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference
Mr. Osgood, -- I'm a non-combatant, but I like to see fair play, -- why don't you write the Guardian people?. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
But this is a target that is exclusively non-combatant, women and children and innocent workers of our country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2001] Reference
The English proclamations, on the other hand, converted these non-combatant farmers into scouts, and often into spies. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
The US log says a non-combatant was wounded with two or three bullets and taken by "the UK company" to Camp Warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan war logs: Civilians caught in firing line of British troops] Reference
We certainly are not required to treat the so-called non-combatant rebels better than they themselves treat each other. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Women, children and non-combatant adult males were injured - and indeed killed – at least as often as the Hamas soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His work was additionally courageous when it is considered that he was a non-combatant and not supposed to engage in hostilities. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
Governments without risk to neutral ships or neutral or non-combatant lives, and in strict observation of the dictates of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
France and England, where they are replacing men employed in clerical and other non-combatant departments, including motor driving. From Wordnik.com. [Woman as Decoration] Reference
I had written to the President of the Orange Free State, asking him to grant me my liberty on the ground that I was a non-combatant. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
Then we have the cavalry: a force of 2,000 mounted troops, with a further 2,000 non-combatant freemen and slaves to support the horse. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
And 10 percent of the troops, in fact, reported mistreating non-combatant civilians or damaging their property when it was not necessary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2007] Reference
French Governments, without risk to neutral ships or to neutral or non-combatant lives, and with strict observance of the dictates of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Government in Germany for the receipt and distribution of such cargoes to licensed German retailers for distribution solely to the non-combatant population. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Many tales reached us of casualties in the administrative and non-combatant services whose work lay there, and many of the marvellous escapes of individuals. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
And if they succeed in that, they will either be discharged as a conscientious objector or in some few cases, they might be retained but put in a non-combatant status. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006] Reference
Germany, although such measures will be enforced without risk to neutral ships or to neutral or non-combatant life and in strict observance of the dictates of humanity; and. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Prior to this, Dr. William Beane, a citizen of Baltimore and a non-combatant, had been captured at Marlboro and was held a prisoner on one of the vessels of the British fleet. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
The General then told me he was very sorry, but he could not use me again, as I was a non-combatant, and if he availed himself of my services, he would be infringing the Geneva. From Wordnik.com. [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference
STARR: Well, all of these non-combatant evacuations, that's what they're called, they work a little bit differently in each country, but through U.S. embassies, it is standard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2006] Reference
Richmond, the two Miss Van der Merwes of Badsfontein, Murraysburg, and a host of others whose names we cannot mention here, as well as non-combatant farmers of the late Republics. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
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