Sentence examples for battle rather than from inspiring English sources

This is a one-on-one battle rather than a fleet race.

Infantrymen could ride the souped-up bikes to battle rather than marching, he said.

The peacekeepers' positions reflect the fortunes of battle, rather than the merits of the two sides' territorial claims.

Suicide-bombers were dispatched ahead of high-speed convoys; the troops showed an eagerness to die in battle rather than duck bullets.

(It "looked like a victim of battle rather than an undersea laboratory," Mr. Piccard wrote of the journey in the August 1960 edition of National Geographic).

And if things get out of hand, the swollen Palestinian police could join the battle, rather than prevent it.Back to interim dealsHow to avert this clash?

Democratic politics depend on the resolution of differences through political battles rather than the military alternative.

I suggest you concentrate on domestic battles rather than picking quarrels with your neighbours.

"Now she needs to pick her battles rather than wasting valuable energy in a fight over symbolism.

During battles, rather than dazzle with a pyrotechnic assault, he settled into off-kilter tempos, making competitors' showboating seem sweaty and mannered.

The academic sciences are nearly as dubious — timid and narrow, driven by turf battles rather than by the quest for breakthroughs.