Adjective : the combatant armies.    From Dictionary.com. 

The distinction between lawful and unlawful enemy combatants is actually important and well known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Interrogation of enemy combatants is not punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: P-I's Connelly: GOP's Conrad Burns An Enabler for Bush-Hitler] Reference

The legal regime applicable to unlawful combatants is very harsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Liberal Base Pulls Democrats Away from Rational Thought on Anti-Terror Policy] Reference

War criminals for trying to prosecute illegal combatants from a war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Supreme Court Decision on Gitmo Undermines Bush’s Legal Case For Warrantless Wiretapping] Reference

The body count of enemy combatants is on a need-to-know/show basis only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Vietnam 2005] Reference

They freely gave in combatants and non-combatants one million men to the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Britain Retain India?] Reference

Luckily no innocents (non-combatants is a better term) were harmed in that debacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spray and Pray: Why cops should go back to carrying revolvers] Reference

The direction McCarthy and special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum want from their two young combatants is higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Bay Packers Team Report] Reference

The detention of enemy combatants is “neither a punishment nor an act of vengeance, ” but is a “simple war measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [IsThatLegal?] Reference

The highest international norm for the treatment of enemy combatants is to have a military trial and military justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Still Missing the Point] Reference

It can be concluded that it took an unusually long time for discharging the disqualified combatants from the cantonments.    From Wordnik.com.  [News]

Still, deliberately targeting non-combatants is something that Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tancredo is comfortable with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin palling around with Tancredo's extremism] Reference

A typical bout lasts 45 minutes to an hour, usually ending when one of the bloodied combatants is too torn and gouged to go on.    From Wordnik.com.  [mjh's blog — 2007 — August] Reference

Whether engaged in low-level bickering or heated conflict, they remained together as long-term combatants, interspersed with periods of truce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: The Big Leap] Reference

The situation might justify me in ordering our troops to cross the border and attempt to stop the fighting, or to fire upon both combatants from the American side.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

"In fact the military is provided with sufficient knowledge about humanitarian law and how they treat, I could not call it combatants, but those who are raising arms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia to Investigate Military Involvement in Alleged Torture Video] Reference

Any objective studies have shown that the percentage of casualties who are women and children and non-combatants is significantly higher among Israelis than among Arabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza] Reference

Persons taking no active part in hostilities means non-combatants, that is, civilians.    From Wordnik.com.  ["And when the captured British sailor admits she 'trespassed' into Iranian waters, there is fear in her eyes."] Reference

One of the combatants was the city of Athens, the other was the great island of Atlantis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critias] Reference

A Supreme Court that expands the Geneva Conventions to non-State illegal combatants aka “terrorists”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Have We Learned to Fight Terrorism?] Reference

Especially when you can make a case that one of the combatants is the best heavyweight in the world today.    From Wordnik.com.  [BoxingScene.com] Reference

The courage of our combatants was the fundamental factor which in that case made up for the lack of experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [20TH ANNIV.-VICTORY OF PLAYA GIRON] Reference

The mind control that allows players to control the combatants is a nanomachine that replaces brain cells, called Nanex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review – Gerard Butler’s Gamer] Reference

It has been foretold that in the Final Battle For Earth, the combatants will be the Giant Squids versus the Warrior Monkeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Barrel Full Of Monkeys!] Reference

To be carried on the shoulders of one of the combatants was a great honour, perhaps because it symbolised being on horseback.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

But there has been no decision by anybody to enter that war on the side of one of the combatants, which is what some would like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks In Press Availability] Reference

"We were told he was held at a camp which is for combatants, which is separate, which they classify as a rehabilitation camp," Obhrai said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Torturing enemy combatants is against the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [First on the CNN Ticker: DNC takes aim at Cheney] Reference

"the Narrows," and the combatants were a pack of nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell England A Study in a Generation] Reference

But look, there ` s two kind of combatants in this system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006] Reference

Nor would we, as a nation, detain presumed "combatants" without a just trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wolf Barack Obama Feeds] Reference

These suspects are not "combatants" in the sense of what the military calls a combatant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it weakness to try terrorists in civilian court?] Reference

Whether or not these defendants have been 'combatants' (or not) is a matter to be determined in court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rejecting the Republican Party of Fear] Reference

Failing to apprehend Osama and elevating his crowd to "combatants" was the worst possible outcome after 9/11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote Of The Day] Reference

You forget women will always be weaker and less effective as combatants which is what everything really boils down to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should Women Have Equal Rights? « AAUW Dialog] Reference