Sentence examples for battle for a while from inspiring English sources

"It was a running gun battle for a while, two and a half hours, nonetheless they were able to get to the aircraft before we could intercept them," a military official said, noting that because it happened at night it was difficult until daylight to be sure that all the insurgents had been killed or captured.

We've been fighting this battle for a while so, if the project cannot get the critical mass of adoption of users and of providers in the beginning of the project it will be hard for the project to continue or exist as a collaboration model.…there needs to be an economic incentive for partners".

For whatever reasons, some people enjoy being negative, and you may find yourself fighting an ongoing battle for a while until you make new friendships.

We've been through a lot of battles together, so we might as well continue battling for a while".

The night ends with Hillary Clinton promising to battle on (for a while yet) and Barack Obama clinching the pledged-delegate majority.

An illiterate peasant teenager, guided by sacred voices, rallies a demoralized nation and leads its armies into battle, defeating (for a while) the seemingly invincible English.

The labels have been plugging away at battling YouTube for a while now, with the trade organisation the Worldwide Independent Network, representing some 850 labels, filing a suit with the European Commission in May for the regulators to investigate the terms for anticompetitive behavior.

Khouma Babacar came on as a substitute and scored in stoppage time to give Fiorentina a controversial 2-1 victoverover 10-man Internazionale in the battle for third place in Serie A, while Milan boosted their bid for the final Champions League spot with a 2-1 win over Genoa on Sunday.

VMware has been talking about doing battle against AWS for a while now, sometimes very vocally, so this move is not too surprising in that regard.

But this ugly battle will go on for a while; judges ordinarily sit for 6 to 12 years before they face reelection.

That will leave the two behemoths of the comic-book world, DC and Marvel, to slug it out in the battle for buzz, while also providing a chance for films that may otherwise have gotten lost in the shuffle — like Luc Besson's sci-fi epic "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" and Oliver Stone's "Snowden" — to grab a piece of the spotlight.