The story concerns a battle for succession in Akhemony's royal house.
The toxins Mr. Vidal was identifying in 1960 as hovering threats on the democratic horizon are now confirmed facts of political life, so that this once-trenchant drama — concerning a battle for the nomination between a high-minded, deeply moral candidate and his canny, cutthroat rival — feels like a civics lesson drawn from a long out-of-date textbook.
The case concerned a custody battle between a father of three children and his former wife, a lesbian.
The battles, though, concerned a lot of the issues directly relevant to the current moment of sexual renegotiation.
The basic plot concerns a battle between two brothers in a mixed martial arts event, but it is the back story and the side stories that lift this film out of the average and place it into the greats.
Set completely in England, the story has two halves: the first concerns a battle over a game of bridge in London's clubland between Bond and industrialist Sir Hugo Drax, while the second follows Bond's mission to stop Drax from destroying London with a nuclear weapon.
For all the talk of a new era of Indo-American collaboration, Americans tend to view India through the narrow prisms of two shared concerns -- a battle against Islamic extremists, and the benefits of international trade.
The team also says its decision was influenced by concerns that a battle in the literature would hurt conservation efforts in Arkansas, where the Nature Conservancy continues to purchase crucial habitat for the woodpecker.
Ten o'clock as far as I was concerned, the Battle of the Somme was over". "We weren't a nation of soldiers, you know.
She is concerned that Battle Hill could one day resemble her former neighborhood in Jackson Heights, Queens, where population increases have led to parking shortages and other problems.
