Sentence examples for a damaging battle from inspiring English sources

To prevent a damaging battle, the Russian army had bombarded it until the guerrillas withdrew.

The government had also become embroiled in a damaging battle with mining companies over a plan to impose a new tax on their "super profits".

Mr. Murdoch plans to merge Vivendi's Telepiu with the News Corporation's smaller Italian pay television operator Stream to become Italy's sole pay TV operator in a move to stem huge losses after a damaging battle for subscribers.

The airline has slashed staff numbers this year and is engaged in a potentially damaging battle with staff over strike threats.

Analysts said Hogan may have acted partly to avoid a politically damaging battle with the Democratic-controlled General Assembly, wheriskedrisked being portrayed as an enemy of Metro.

Colin Hart, campaign director of the anti-equal marriage group Coalition for Marriage, said: "The scale of the opposition against the government's profoundly undemocratic plans is astonishing, and sends a clear message to the prime minister that he faces a lengthy and damaging battle to redefine marriage.

The league has also dropped its demands for a hard salary cap, elimination of guaranteed contracts and a rollback in existing salaries — all items that would have set off a long and damaging battle.

Democratic leaders resigned themselves yesterday to a prolonged and potentially damaging battle between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama for their party's presidential nomination, but said they will push for a quick conclusion to the warfare once the primaries end in early June.

Ashcroft's closest brush with disaster came in 1991: a damaging legal battle with Canada's Laidlaw, the biggest investor in ADT (as Hawley was renamed).

The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, survived a damaging leadership battle on Thursday to retain the reins of a divided Labor party heading towards almost certain defeat in elections in September.

But senior party figures seemed to shy from embarking on a damaging leadership battle, while the Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, said on Friday that he was "absolutely committed to make this coalition government work for the full five years of this term".