Sentence examples for curious battle from inspiring English sources

Officials say this would violate the EU's treaties and, even if these could be bent, the German constitutional court would not wear it.Thus a curious battle over terminology: the European Commission wanted a centralised resolution "authority"; leaders spoke of a "mechanism"; and Germany proposed a looser "network" of national resolution authorities and funds (yet to be created).

The mention of Salmonella may evoke stomach-churning thoughts of burgers gone bad, but the food-poisoning bugs actually have potential to do good: a curious knack for battling tumors.

In the halls of last week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum here, Wall Street's top bankers found a curious ally in their battle to end - or perhaps water down - the Volcker Rule, that part of last year's Dodd-Frank financial regulation law that says that banks are not allowed to participate in "proprietary trading".

In the halls of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum here last week, Wall Street's top bankers found curious allies in their battle to end — or perhaps water down — the so-called Volcker Rule, that part of last year's Dodd-Frank financial regulation law that says banks are not allowed to make risky bets with their own money.

: The historian Andrew Roberts notes that "It is a curious fact about the Battle of Waterloo that no one is absolutely certain when it actually began".

"Keynes's incuriosity about this battle is itself curious.

Taya Zinkin was a devoted wife and mother, fearless in pursuit of what she believed right - including kidnapping her niece in New Mexico and winning the subsequent custody battle - intellectually curious and challenging to the end of her life, and a brilliant hostess.

Something of this phenomenon affected Moynihan's curious behavior in the welfare battle that followed the one over health care.

The second lost battle is more curious: it is La Manif' Pour Tous, the conservative-minded protest which rallied people opposed to same-sex marriage.

In another curious twist, insurance companies, which battled Mr. Obama over health care in 2009 and 2010, are now urging state officials to set up exchanges.

Now the audience are curious – and that's half the battle won.