Sentence examples for battling off from inspiring English sources

And to add to the strangeness of the game, the Indians were able to do just enough battling off Cubs' star pitcher Jon Lester to take the opening game.

Mr. Lunde recalled a scene a few years back, around twilight, near the north entrance to the Central Park Zoo: "Someone had strung up a duffel bag full of peanuts, and the place was just swarming with squirrels, but with only one great big brown rat sitting on top of the pile and battling off all the squirrels around him.

In the real world, every job on a beehive's spreadsheet — foraging for nectar and pollen, fanning nectar into honey, fawning over the queen, squirting out wax, battling off bears, tossing out the trash and dead bees — is performed by a cast of workers that is homogeneously female.

"The manner in which it has ended, battling off a potential career-threatening injury and defending a charge of 'providing inside information on London Broncos' playing strengths and pre-match preparations, and of encouraging other people to bet on the outcome of a match using the social media messaging application, WhatsApp', has had a traumatic effect on me and my family".

What haunted Gibbs about that loss in Miami was not the outcome itself — the stronger, more experienced big-match player had won, after all — but the possibility that her failure would be used by opponents she was battling off the court.

All this while battling off a nasty bout of flu.

That he is currently caught between coaching one of the best teams in the nation to a possibly career-cementing championship while also battling off-court issues that could prematurely end that same career makes the entire situation Academy Award material.

"In its 50's heyday, 3-D was a desperate attempt by the Hollywood studios to provide novelty to battle off the nemesis of television," Mr. Thompson said.

They brought with them heavy weapons and a new determination to overthrow the Malian government, which they had battled off and on for decades in a largely secular struggle for greater autonomy.

Unknown to the French authorities, a British expeditionary force had already captured the island, and Roquebert's squadron was ambushed in May 1811 and brought to battle off Tamatave in Madagascar.

The fleets battled off Grenada, with d'Estaing prevailing over Byron's disorganized attack.