Sentence examples for actual battle from inspiring English sources

The film follows the career of an ex-US Navy destroyer, HMS Ballantrae (actually ); the raid is named "Operation Boadicea" and portrays the main events of the actual battle.

"It was an actual battle," Finlay says.

You don't even have to blink to miss the actual battle, because it isn't here.

I think Dad's a bit perturbed to hear an actual battle going on.

For that battle, a replica of a Norman village was built, using photographs of several actual battle sites as guides.

It's almost too convenient an emblem of alienation, and it saves the producer — like the military commander — the overwhelming nuisance of staging an actual battle.

"This map is special because it's a map of an idea or an aspiration, rather than a map of an actual battle.

A fictional description of the battle of Borodino gives way to a military history of the actual battle, complete with a map of the battlefield.

"San Pietro" ends with text that demurely admits that some of the footage was taken before or after the actual battle — which hardly amounts to full disclosure.

It has substituted for the humanistic conception of culture a system of education which develops out of the fellowship of actual battle".

The institutionalization of maneuver philosophy began with the Marine Corps' educational system, analyzing the actual battle-space of warfare-be it humanitarian assistance, regular set-piece battles, or irregular guerrilla war-and the role that the leadership cadre of the Marine Corps played in this evolutionary transition from attrition to maneuver.