Sentence examples for border fought from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Skeptics about further economic development between the countries also point to a reservoir of mistrust dating to border skirmishes fought on Damansky Island in the Ussuri River in 1969 that put the Soviet Union in a defensive crouch along the border and froze all development for decades.

Skeptics of further economic development between the countries also point to deep mistrust dating to border skirmishes fought on Damansky Island in the Ussuri River in 1969 that put the Soviet Union in a defensive crouch along the border and froze all development for decades.

We trained hard and when we crossed the border, we fought like tigers.

Here, just 50km from the German border, was fought the first battle of the conflict, on 5 August 1914.

In the early 1990s ethnic Tutsi rebels from both sides of the border had fought the Hutu-led Rwandan government, which was supported by Mobutu.

Confrontation with America did not disappear but took on a new meaning.In early August this year the Russian army, for the first time since the Soviet collapse, crossed an internationally recognised border and fought a short, victorious war: with Georgia.