Sentence examples for an escalating battle from inspiring English sources
The gentler approach also reflects hard calculations in an escalating battle with the United States for regional influence.
The threat is the latest volley in an escalating battle involving the United States and Japan as well as Europe.
But because the constitution would be approved over the objections of the political opposition, it seemed sure to inflame an escalating battle between Mr. Morsi and his critics.
MANILA — In an escalating battle between entrenched political forces in the Philippines, a senior official accused of election fraud was arrested on Tuesday.
The work of an agency like St Margaret's lies in assessing those would-be parents; and the criteria it applies are now the subject of an escalating battle.
Another problem is that the airline is embroiled in an escalating battle with the Italian government and Italy's state-run airline, Alitalia, over fares.
In brief, they involve the cross-Sound electric cable, a rapidly escalating battle over a plan to dump mountains of dredged spoils from Connecticut into the Sound and a proposed natural gas pipeline.
According to several Special Forces soldiers and Kurdish officials, what had been expected to be a slowly escalating battle accelerated wildly when most of the Iraqi soldiers and government loyalists slipped away in the morning, moving south, it seemed, toward Tikrit, the region of Saddam Hussein's birth.
CAIRO — As a new Constitution engraves Islam ever more firmly into Egyptian law, a young comic's escalating battle with a group of ultraconservative television sheiks has become an early skirmish over the application of Islamic law, or Shariah.
Exhibit A has been his escalating battle with the powerful state teachers' union, the 204,000-member New Jersey Education Association.
[Page A1.] Cablevision Names 4 Directors In a sign of the escalating battle between Charles F. Dolan, Cablevision's founder, and James L. Dolan, his son and the company's chief executive, Charles Dolan named four new directors to Cablevision's board.
