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Combat in sentence

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The benefits of being left-handed are clearest in activities involving an opponent, like combat or competitive sports.
Other drugs combat male pattern baldness by blocking the conversion of testosterone to DHT so that it doesn't affect those sensitive follicles.
So to combat this, we tether ourselves with science.
As a first step, why don't we start spending those unused, those extra SDRs that were printed in 2009, to combat climate change?
This of course meant that they would be less effective in combat and very vulnerable, too.
To combat it, we spray pesticides that do grave damage to other species, including amphibians and birds.
Every war that we have fought as a country, starting with the Civil War, the intensity of the combat has gone down.
Around 10 percent of the US military is actively engaged in combat, 10 percent or under.
In fact, there's no statistical connection between combat and suicide.
If you're in the military and you're in a lot of combat, you're no more likely to kill yourself than if you weren't.
Ten percent are in combat.
Even combat veterans of previous wars who suffered from PTSD said that their symptoms went down after 9/11 happened.
When the Ebola outbreak broke out in Western Africa, he quickly realized that doctors there lacked the basic tools to detect and combat disease.
It was my grandfather who introduced me to the effects of combat on the psyche.
Yet, when we consider the experience of the modern-day combat veteran, we begin to see that we have not been as good at preparing them to come home.
It's just that the probability of encountering them compared to combat is astronomically lower.
He also listened to recordings of his combat experiences, over and over and over.
It is traumatic stress like active combat or natural disasters or community violence or sexual assault that causes post-traumatic stress disorder, and not everyone that is exposed to stress develops a mood disorder.
Now, how come we have something that works so well in nature, every day, everywhere around us, and yet, in most parts of the world, we do not have a single drug on the market that uses this principle to combat bacterial infections?
Brian is both a nurse and a soldier who's seen combat.
So when Mahari was leaving my office, I worried that he might need something more specific to combat the challenges that he mentioned to me.
But it was only until three years ago, when I ran the London Marathon bleeding freely on my cycle to combat the global menstrual stigma that women face every day all around the world, that I realized that I have a message, and that the most effective way that I can convey my message was through my music.
I met the last Air Force General who had actually shot down an enemy plane in combat.
We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks.
Reporter: ...battlefield companions are helping to reduce the combat risks.
In 1980, China decided to implement the one-child policy, largely limiting most parents to having just one kid to combat overpopulation.
ARVs are a group of drugs which work in different ways to combat HIV.
The potential for similar situations, in which authorities use their powers to mobilize society against a false threat, still exists today— but so does the capacity of reasoned dissent to combat those false beliefs.
I think fostering this pride and empathy will make the world a kinder and more equal place and combat the bigotry and hate that festers in our world.
The grand opening was celebrated with 100 days of pageantry and gladiatorial games, setting the precedent for programming that included parades, musical performances, public executions, and of course, gladiatorial combat.
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