Sentence examples for battle on equal terms from inspiring English sources

Being acquainted with the nature of the country, he left behind him six cohorts to guard the bridge, the camp, and all his baggage, and the next day set off in person for Ilerda, with all his forces drawn up in three lines, and halted just before the camp of Afranius, and having remained there a short time under arms, he offered him battle on equal terms.

With President Clinton pondering his first nomination to the high court, Democrats were anxious to find someone who could do battle on equal terms with the court's dominant conservatives.

Ms. McCormick demanded to fight on equal terms with men.

This means that Saba can do battle with him on equal terms.

The battle for women's suffrage on equal terms with men, to which she made her first commitment in 1875, was her most enduring cause.

We fight not here on equal terms.

Israelis and Palestinians also cooperate on water in spite of their political conflict, albeit not on equal terms.

84 1 After the cavalry battle had continued for a long time on equal terms, the elephants, urged on into the combat by their Indian mahouts, advanced for a certain distance in a way to inspire terror, just as if no one were going to withstand them.

The Sony Move is more or less vanquished (as a major competitor; it's still a viable platform), and if Nintendo announces a new and improved console, it might check the momentum of the Kinect, rather than (if they'd done so last year) competing with it on equal terms in a cutthroat battle for holiday consumers.

Most did very well, and one, Melanie Besner as Amour, managed to compete on equal terms.

And yet isn't it significant that the battle that women seem to have come closest to winning is the right to compete with men on equal terms in the economic field - the very field that Thatcher, by example at least, championed?