Offenses committed against noncombatant civilians during the conduct of the war generally.
These orders were carried out in detail, not a single noncombatant having lost his life as a result of the operations that ensued.
For a time the Government kept a number of men taken from submarines, known to have caused the loss of noncombatant lives, in close confinement.
Floyd Gibbons, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, a noncombatant who wanted to see the combat he was there to report, was in that memorable action.
The Sorrow Of The People Appendix: Atrocities The Log Of A Noncombatant Chapter I From Broadway To Ghent When the war broke out in August, 1914, I was at work in the City Room of the "New York Evening Post.
The noncombatant citizens did their share toward keeping up the general spirits.
The army was in an enemy’s land, a land of plenty, but the noncombatant farming-people of that land suffered but little in purse or property and not at all in person.
The department planned to assign men over 40 years to noncombatant service, which calls for a very large proportion of men for every combatant at the front.
Since Alva's atrocious cruelties to the noncombatantpopulation of the Low Countries in the sixteenth century, the history of war records no instance of such barbarous cruelty as that which this order designed to perpetrate.
He was an unresisting and noncombatant captive, and there was no offense ever alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capture of the city.
It must also be taken into account that after the organization it was necessary to make many noncombatant details.
It will, of course, be necessary to remove the noncombatant population from a greater depth of country immediately in the rear of the fighting lines than formerly, in order that women and children may not be gassed.
Behind the combatant Engineer troops, extending through the service of supply to the base ports and across the ocean to the United States was an organization of technical noncombatant supply and administration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noncombatant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: citizen; civilian; conciliatory; noncombatant; pacific; peaceable
