The inciters usually work in the rear, as noncombatants or molders of public opinion.
After a truce to allow of the removal of noncombatants protracted negotiations continued from July 3 until July 15, when, under menace of immediate assault, the preliminaries of surrender were agreed upon.
Noncombatants are to be spared in person and property during hostilities, as much as the necessities of war and the conduct of such noncombatantswill permit.
At length the Melouia was passed, and, although the foe was pressing on, he would not leave its bank until the noncombatants had gained a full hour in advance.
This was one of the few raids made by aviators of the allied powers in which the lives of noncombatants were lost.
Karlsruhe's citizens were made to realize the losses which German airmen had inflicted upon the noncombatants of other countries.
At first the noncombatantshad merely retired with the fighting line.
Sidenote: Murder of noncombatants not to be settled by litigation.
With the aid of the motor transport service, hundreds of noncombatants were removed to places of safety.
The crusaders captured Damietta, at the mouth of the Nile, left the noncombatants there and marched southward toward Cairo.
When this nation carries war to innocent, unarmed men, women, and children, slaughtering these noncombatants by the tens and hundreds of thousands, we are obliged to condemn it.
A second ultimatum brought forth a telegraphic message from Djemal Pasha at Damascus, threatening to execute allied subjects interned in that city if any Ottoman noncombatants were killed at Alexandretta by the British guns.
The black flag of piracy, hitherto regarded as the symbol of international outlawry, floats on the high seas, and the assassination of neutrals and noncombatantsis regarded by some as a national virtue.
While the dames and other noncombatants take seats in the lodges, the six camp marshals--distinguished knights in charge of the contests--appear in the lists.
They go to a broad, convenient meadow across the Claire, where the noncombatants can watch from a safe distance.
But when an army is directed or permitted to kill noncombatants on a large scale the ferocity of the worst natures springs into fuller life, and both lust and the thirst of blood become more widespread and more formidable.
Other crimes onnoncombatants at Alost belong to the end of the month of September.
The civilized world had supposed that each nation would make war only on the public forces and resources of its antagonist; but last August Germany made ferocious war on noncombatants and private property.
There was a marked parallel between the treatment of the noncombatants of the South and that of the noncombatants of Cuba by the Spaniards.
They heard little of the hundreds of noncombatants killed by their submarines, or else these casualties were explained as the result of the explosion of cargoes of munitions.
British statements dwell more upon the number of noncombatants who were killed, and deny the infliction of any material damage.
It is not likely these murders of noncombatants can ever be counted up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noncombatants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
