Sentence examples for an armed battle from inspiring English sources
On June 3, in Ciudad Madero, a mayoral candidate and a candidate for the local congress were pinned down during an armed battle between rival drug gangs.
The uprising began as a peaceful protest movement and slowly turned into an armed battle in response to the government's use of overwhelming lethal force.
The sickly Mr. Xhaferi's deputy, Menduh Thaci, has spoken about how "the Albanians are beginning an armed battle for the liberation of their territories in Macedonia".
The ensuing truck trip over the border and through Iraq, undertaken at great risk and leading to an armed battle — dangers played for laughs — gives the pair an inflated sense of possibility.
I tried to avoid the big avenues but eventually I had to cross Calea Victoriei and I found myself caught in the middle of an armed battle.
The Muslim Brotherhood is being flooded with advice, with some calling on it to follow the Turkish model, i.e. to be patient and then carry out a coup, while others urge it to avoid the Algerian model, i.e. engaging in an armed battle against the army, because it would mean suicide.
In fact, the country has no standing army and has never been involved in an armed conflict other than the Battle of St . Georges Caye, during which it's reported that nary a shot was fired.
Abbas, who rules in the West Bank, and Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip after ousting Abbas' forces in a brief armed battle in June 2007, reached an agreement on Thursday to reconcile their differences.
In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis, U.S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General Benjamin Butler for his legal opinion on the border dispute.
In fact most Yemenis, who have been mere observers of the armed battle between rival groups for control of the capital, already bade farewell to him months ago.
"I was baptized on October 4 , 1993 in the White House," she said, recalling the days of the armed battle between the Parliament, in what is known as the White House, and the Yeltsin forces.
