Sentence examples for by trenches from inspiring English sources

Modern popular images of the first world war are dominated by trenches, mud, wire, tin hats and poets.

Others simply left after months without pay, cut off from the government in Kiev by trenches and checkpoints.

Positioned in front of each cross-street leading to the market, the bunkers are connected by trenches and have turned the wide boulevard into a death zone.

After two deadly assaults, Villa's cavalry, the most formidable contingent among the revolutionary armies, failed to capture Obregón's positions, which were protected by trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns.

Below him, sharp-edged mountains gave way to desert lands scarred for mile after mile by trenches nearly 15 feet deep and concrete walls reaching a height of 10 feet.

Our image of World War I is of two forces tied by trenches into a stalemate broken by occasional spasms -- the Somme, Verdun -- in which hundreds of thousands of soldiers died to advance or retreat a thousand yards or so.

"The Iranians are fighting us trench by trench.

Half of them are enlarged copies of World War I-era postcards depicting landscapes devastated by trench warfare.

PARIS — Trench by trench, economic battle lines are being drawn for the German general election in September as the biggest European economy grapples with its deepest post-war recession.

Sources close to the firm say he was worn out by trench warfare between partners in Paris, London and New York and in investment-management, who accused him of following Mr David-Weill's line too closely.Leaving Lazard now seems all the rage.

Our analysis also indicates that intra-continent rifting and back-arc extension were triggered by trench retreat during the Cretaceous and that the subduction of the oceanic ridge and arc were triggered by trench retreat during the Cenozoic.