Sentence examples for contending armies from inspiring English sources

It is deplorable (yet normal) for contending armies to take advantage of pauses and ceasefires and attempted negotiations to strengthen their relative positions, but Assad's forces are in a much better position to do so than the rebels.

"There is no part of the national curriculum so likely to prove an ideological battleground for contending armies as history," complained an embattled Michael Gove in a speech last week.

Contending Armies The competition between Atlas and the C.M.S. is in keeping with a long tradition of having rival teams and rival detectors at big experiments to keep each other honest and to cover all the bets.

Sri Lanka is at war in all but name, and it is hard not to believe that is what the contending armies have long intended.

But if you head downriver to visit the battlefield, remember one of American history's ironies: the battle was fought, and General Pakenham died, after a peace treaty had been signed but before word of it reached the contending armies.

These profit-making exchanges, like the CME Group, oversee the very futures firms they rely on for business, a self-regulatory system unlike that overseeing the Wall Street banks, which contend with armies of federal regulators.

Litigation by lawyers for detainees and their families contended that army training procedures throughout the British military role in Iraq sanctioned interrogation techniques that included threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness, and that trainee interrogators were told that they should aim to provoke humiliation, disorientation, exhaustion and fear.

Navigating a network of cavernous basements and tunnels, the audience must search for the body parts of a large baby while contending with an army of humanoids that will adapt and evolve based on the audience's efforts.

Reports about him are contradictory, some claiming that he is hostile to the West and close to the most religious elements in the army, others contending that he is a pro-western reformer.

After converting, he considered leaving the Army, but has said in interviews that he reconciled his beliefs with his military service, contending that "the British Army as a community recognises the issue of spirituality and goodness and righteousness and justice and evil and wrong probably far more than most".

Some of what the army contends is clearly real.