Sentences with phrase «against enemy combatants»

Bill, fighting against enemy combatants in warzones is a different thing.

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In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.
An «enemy» in the context of the phrase «enemy combatant» is a term of art that refers to a group defined by Congress with whom the United States is at war or against whom it is authorized to use military force.
The «enemy combatant» doctrine is part of the law of war and relies upon the notion that during a war you can use all necessary force against enemy soldiers and spies.
Never one to shy away from a good slaughter, the prolific Japanese auteur dials up the violence even by his high standards, orchestrating not one but two massive battles of attrition that a pit lone wolf swordsman against absurdly large numbers of disposable enemy combatants.
Co-op is fun, offering the opportunity to play the entire campaign with a friend, to engage in a survival mode (against waves of Nazi soldiers), and a mode called «Overwatch,» in which one player spots enemy combatants and the other player snipes.
The player's team appears on screen against up to three enemy combatants with turn order determined by individual character statistics.
As an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the administration of President George W. Bush, John Yoo helped write the so - called torture memos, justifying the use of «enhanced interrogation techniques» against «enemy combatants
(a) Nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war, and principles governing the exercise of jurisdiction by such commissions, considered.
In Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1, we had occasion to consider at length the sources and nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war.
The charges were dropped against both Hamdan and Omar Khadr in 2007 because the CSRT classified him as an enemy combatant, whereas the commission only allowed detention of alien «unlawful» enemy combatants.
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