| Perfidy is a war crime, and it tempts combatants because perfidious military acts provide them with an advantage. |
| He could only plea with them to distinguish between combatants and those innocent civilians who do not bear arms. |
| The act of defining combatants is analogous to the military concept of choosing the terrain of battle. |
| Clerks from both of their firms circled around the trash-talking combatants, as if this were some kind of Wall Street rumble. |
| Historically, the application of technology to weaponry has allowed combatants to fight at ever-increasing ranges and with greater lethality. |
| Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force. |
