Sentence examples for battle could not from inspiring English sources

He demurred, believing that the battle could not be won and that staging a head-on collision would split and perhaps destroy the party.

French soldiers patrolling nearby came upon a German field hospital; Fournier's men joined the firefight that followed.The few who escaped the battle could not say what had happened to the lieutenant.

It was a powerful moment of recognition that nearly everybody in the ballpark has been touched by cancer in one way or another, and that in many ways, this, the most personal kind of battle, could not be more communal.

But the battle could not be more important; if we do nothing to protect taxpayers from the symbiotic relationship between the industry and their federal minders, we are in for many more episodes like the one we are still digging out of.

A confirmation battle could not only provoke fresh skirmishing on longstanding issues like guns, abortion, race and terrorism; it might also generate new divisions stemming from constitutional challenges to Mr. Obama's new health care program and a recent Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing the right of corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money in candidate elections.

In a publication called "NFLPA Guide to the Lockout," the players union warned that its battle could not be won at the negotiating table or in the court of public opinion if there was even a hint of division in the ranks.

Either way, it's probably nothing that a good old fashioned dance battle couldn't fix.

Several veterans of long-ago battles could not help but note the irony of an elderly Mr. Lautenberg running against a challenger 29 years his junior.

I had been fighting a battle I could not win -- a battle with myself.

"Amazon figured out pretty quickly that this was a battle they could not win," said Mike Shatzkin, the chief of the Idea Logical Company, a consultant to publishers.

It was a battle Blatter could not win because ranged against him were not only the clubs but the broadcasters, whose winter-summer cycle of domestic-and-international football is extremely lucrative.