Sentence examples for damaging battle from inspiring English sources

To prevent a damaging battle, the Russian army had bombarded it until the guerrillas withdrew.

The airline has slashed staff numbers this year and is engaged in a potentially damaging battle with staff over strike threats.

The government had also become embroiled in a damaging battle with mining companies over a plan to impose a new tax on their "super profits".

As the damaging battle raged, Disney's shares turned downwards and creativity suffered - few remember films such as Home on the Range and Brother Bear.

The league has also dropped its demands for a hard salary cap, elimination of guaranteed contracts and a rollback in existing salaries — all items that would have set off a long and damaging battle.

Mr. Murdoch plans to merge Vivendi's Telepiu with the News Corporation's smaller Italian pay television operator Stream to become Italy's sole pay TV operator in a move to stem huge losses after a damaging battle for subscribers.

It will add to the woes of ministers mired in damaging battles over unpopular policy proposals on several fronts.

The media giant said it was likely to "deploy our capital elsewhere" to avoid any more damaging battles in the UK.

He did offer words of contrition, however, on domestic policy, saying that he had done a "weak" job of handling labour issues and of promoting economic stability for lower- and middle-class Koreans.Some of Mr Roh's most damaging battles, meanwhile, have been with the media.

It is likely the club do not wish to enter a lengthy and damaging legal battle.

Ashcroft's closest brush with disaster came in 1991: a damaging legal battle with Canada's Laidlaw, the biggest investor in ADT (as Hawley was renamed).