Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
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Combat Quotations
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama
Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
Barack Obama
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
Larry David
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
Allen West
Combat Translations
combat in French is se battre
combat in Italian is lottare
combat in Spanish is batallar
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