There have been the constant skirmishes within miles of the brigade's camps, and the car bomb that killed four of the brigade's soldiers on Saturday.
There you are, with all your familiar dreams and conflicts, the constant skirmishes between frustration and transcendence, your best and worst selves.
His colleagues recalled constant skirmishes on the road to Basra; on one occasion a rocket-propelled grenade bounced off the armoured car in which he was travelling.
"Go!" So began the third day for a rifle company alone in northern Marja, where four platoons have been in near constant skirmishing with the Taliban since Saturday.
Intriguingly, the biological assets that make someone like Suárez such a feared striker – his rapid reactions and predatory goalscoring instinct – may also be behind his constant skirmishes with the rules.
Constant skirmishes followed, including the war in 1956 in which Israel joined forces with Britain and France to take control of the Suez Canal and the Sinai from Egypt and its president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, until Washington intervened.
A simpering 10th-century Blacke Aedder hovering at his majesty's side would fit right in, while constant skirmishes with the Danes would open the door for casting lots of familiar Scandi-noir faces.
Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country's direst enemies are not "subversive" foreigners, but homegrown liberals.
"The JV has been dogged by political controversy since its inception and the constant skirmishing in Russia means that there is now very little, if any value in BP's share price for the business, in our view," said Iain Reid at Jefferies.
Throughout the summer of 1835, both governments continued their practice of one-upmanship, and constant skirmishes and arrests occurred.
