Sentence examples for crossing swords from inspiring English sources

The monument, now inside Baghdad's Green Zone, depicts two pairs of enormous hands crossing swords 140 feet above the street.

The way Hollywood sees the world today, nothing could possibly be scarier than crossing swords with the Russians.

But the financial consequences of crossing swords with Raiola are nothing compared with the dangers of a deepening dependency on the Portuguese Jorge Mendes.

One wonders how she felt in 1952, crossing swords with Robert Ryan in Fritz Lang's "Clash by Night": "Were you ever a showgirl?" "Ye gods, no".

Many a wounded politician would be quick to agree that crossing swords with formidable Westminster blogger Guido Fawkes is a traditionally hazardous business.

He is not crossing swords with Mario Draghi, the ECB's boss, because he wants to bring back a world where the Bundesbank ruled supreme.

He and my mother just crossed swords.

In 1967, two French politicians literally crossed swords in Neuilly.

His right hand bore a tattoo of crossed swords.

Sonia Gandhi, the party's leader, crossed swords with him.

Yet the two men never seem to have crossed swords.