Wrestling an alligator was one thing; an expert human might survive such combat.
None would survive such close combat, but they might punch a hole before they died.
They're blessed enough to survive combat, but they have so much to deal with when they return.
Salter paints a vivid and familiar picture for any military pilot who has survived aerial combat.
As long as a single unit survives combat, the company can eventually resupply to full strength.
If the defending unit survives combat, it may counter-attack, which follows the same steps.
I've met very few doctors who could survive hand-to-hand combat with three armed men.
But plans often do not survive actual combat: the enemy has a vote.
Many men who survived combat in the war lost their lives just two years after the war's end.
Her skills are sufficient enough to survive combat with the Hand.