Sentence examples for battle struck from inspiring English sources

In May, 119 people were killed in a church in northern Colombia when a missile fired by the FARC in the midst of a battle struck the roof of the building.

The picture's apparent reversal of gender norms — this Snow White wears armor, wields a sword and leads an army into battle — struck Parlato (who does not seem to have seen it) as emblematic of "a Hollywood agenda of glorifying degenerate power women and promoting as natural the weakling, hyena-like men, cum eunuchs".

In 1934, Guardsmen battled striking workers with tear gas and the Armory was sandbagged after rumors of a bomb threat.

He considers it his duty to prod the poor to find jobs and to battle strike-prone unions that he says are dragging down the economy.

We've won the battle and struck a blow for the harmonic principles of the biosphere!

And how did over a hundred militants gather and arm themselves before launching the city-wide battle that struck Nalchik, not far from Beslan, last week?

British armored battle groups struck into the southeastern city of Basra and said they had control of more than half of the city.

Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots "between wind and water".

At least half the film focuses on the legal battle to strike down Judge Bazile's decision, a struggle that was finally resolved by the Supreme Court in 1967.

"But there's a big, huge internal battle" – he strikes every word with his finger on his desk – "among the [wider] Malaysian community between the fanatics and the extremists to petition broader, more liberal tolerance.

All this uncertainty remains despite the importance Feinstein herself put on resolving a battle that strikes at the heart of the constitutional separation of powers.