Sentence examples for border fights from inspiring English sources

In Tolosa, on Midsummer Day, the Bordon-Dantza ("walking stick dance") is performed with the figures of the ezpatadantza; some point its origins to the border fights in the Middle Ages, when the Castilian troops from Gipuzkoa won an important victory over the troops from Navarre at the Battle of Beotibar.

The Empire decisively lost two border fights against the Soviets, the Battles of Lake Khasan and Khalkin Gol, thereby convincing itself that the Imperial Japanese Army, lacking heavy tanks and the like, would be in no position to challenge the Red Army at that time.

PAGE A6 Marine Dies in Border Fight A marine was killed in an ambush during a sweep along the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Shelby and other raiders on the Western border fought for the Confederacy, but they unleashed collective retribution on the West in part to preserve slavery and terrorize those who sought — and fought — to end the peculiar institution.

A4 Scuffles Along Kosovo Border Fighting between the Yugoslav military and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the buffer zone just east of Kosovo in southern Serbia has risen sharply, with four Serbian soldiers reported wounded and one killed, officials said.

"We go to the borders, fight, make war, which is not the best solution.

The problem echoes a cross-border fight in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, when customer money was trapped overseas.

While investors often have disputes that end up in court, this cross-border fight is with one of the giants in global distressed debt — Paul E. Singer, a major Republican donor.

The trustee liquidating MF Global's trading operations said on Friday that his office was seeking the return of more than $600 million from the failed firm's British arm, potentially setting up a cross-border fight over customer money.

Page B1 MF GLOBAL TRUSTEES AT ODDS The trustee liquidating MF Global's trading operations said that his office was seeking the return of more than $600 million from the failed firm's British arm, potentially setting up a cross-border fight over customer money.

But prominent German businessmen, including DaimlerChrysler's Jrgen Schremp and Allianz's Henning Schulte-Noelle (both members of Mannesmann's supervisory board), have firmly told Schrder to keep his nose out of this cross-border fight.