Sentence examples for battles occurred from inspiring English sources

Battles occurred because of the threat of invasion, so that many armed men were present.

One of the more bizarre proxy battles occurred at United Health an insurer that covers more than 70 million people.

The deadliest battles occurred near Hawija and Sulaiman Pek, northern towns near Kirkuk, and battles were still raging in the early evening.

In Falluja in the Sunni heartland west of Baghdad, where the most pitched battles occurred, hospital officials said several dozen people had been killed after Americans fired rockets at a mosque compound.

These battles occurred even before the rise of the Zulu king Shaka, whom an early historiography holds almost solely responsible for turmoil as far afield as the Cape Colony, Tanzania, and western Zambia.

Although no pitched battles occurred in Indiana, the native tribes of the region supported the French.

When battles occur, the turn-based system has surprising depth.

There are currently two battles occurring in Iran.

AS THE LEGENDARY bon vivant Ludwig Bemelmans once noted of restaurateurs: "The most strenuous customer-versus-proprietor battles occur in the smart restaurants of Paris and New York.

Reagan "paid so little attention to what was going on in his office that he was unaware of pitched battles occurring down the hall," Cannon concludes.

Instead of Arthurian battles occurring up and down Britain, as others have claimed, there is a concentration in southern Scotland and the Borders.