Sentence examples for bloody ground from inspiring English sources

But as bloody ground battles rage throughout the city, rebel control is limited.

The fighting has been more intense than ever, with jet fighters bombing rebel positions repeatedly, and frequent reports of bloody ground skirmishes.

There, NATO has for the first time been engaged in bloody ground combat as it attempts to prevent the country from reverting to a failed state and terrorist haven.

America and Britain once again betray the Serbs, who were loyal allies in two world wars.GEORGE TINTORLondonSIR You say that armies owned and operated by the state cannot fight bloody ground wars abroad because of political resistance at home.

But in such moments of disorientation, it is easy to see why this lovely but confounding landscape was called "the dark and bloody ground," a name of uncertain origin that goes back for centuries.

In recent interviews with senior Pakistani Army and intelligence officials, however, few commanders said they wanted to carry out what almost certainly would be a bloody ground war in the mountainous, unruly tribal areas, preferring to continue to rely on helicopter gunship attacks, artillery barrages and F-16 airstrikes to pound the militants into submission.

Giving us two classic deranged killers in one book, Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill, Harris brought the "use a thief to catch a thief" concept to new and bloodier ground.

He answered himself, "We were there just to be there; just to say, 'This is the Church, these purposes are of God.' " For, whether they knew it or not, he added, the young blacks and whites who were risking their lives for freedom — especially on so bloody a ground as Mississippi — were obeying the will of the Holy Spirit.

MacLaren commented: "I couldn't very well have had a man fielding in the bloody practice ground, now could I?" The bowlers recovered the situation to some extent, and following a century from Jackson, England trailed by 37 runs after the first innings.

The Lords has always been the bloodiest battle-ground for government business.

Our destination was to be the scene of one of the bloodiest battle grounds in Britain's industrial history.