Sentence examples for a decisive battle for from inspiring English sources

"It is a decisive battle for both sides".

The Afghan Army fought well, routing the mujahideen in a decisive battle for the city of Jalalabad.

Military analysts warned that it was impossible to know whether a decisive battle for Damascus was beginning, especially as Syrians lost access to the Internet for 53 hours, limiting the flow of information, before it was restored on Saturday.

Rebels seeking the leader's ouster recaptured two important refineries, at Brega and Ras Lanuf, as well as a strategic port in the east, setting the stage for a decisive battle for Surt.

A1 THE OPPOSITION -- The deputy defense minister of the Northern Alliance says that rebel troops have advanced to the outskirts of the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif, setting the stage for a decisive battle for control of northern Afghanistan.

Rebels mounted what they called a "decisive battle" for Aleppo, Syria's largest city, after months of brutal but inconclusive fighting, aiming to seize control of predominantly Christian and Kurdish neighborhoods from which, the rebels say, security forces and pro-government militias have attacked.

But today, a holiday on which Colombians celebrated a decisive battle in the war for independence, restaurants bustled with travelers and shop owners did a brisk business selling sodas and trinkets, attributing it to the government-organized caravans, which leave urban areas at appointed times on holiday weekends.

It was the site of a decisive battle (1811) in Uruguay's struggle for independence, in which the revolutionaries defeated Spanish forces.

And both sides continued to prepare for a decisive battle in the Qaddafi stronghold of Surt.

The Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, even told his soldiers to prepare for a "decisive battle".

The withdrawal ruined McClellan's plans and crushed Northern hopes for a decisive battle at Yorktown — just like in the American Revolution.