Sentence examples for deciding battles from inspiring English sources

As deciding battles simmer through London's filthy streets, the reader sinks helplessly deeper into the ink-and-paper morass, transfixed by a succession of wild-eyed, dangerous stares, and poring over their pictures again and again.

A deciding battle between South Africa and Scotland will go a long way to deciding who will emerge as Pool B winners.

Yet this is the image of him that confronts awestruck young women when they travel to the village of Sekigahara in central Japan.There, in 1600, Tokugawa used brilliant tactics—and treachery to win the deciding battle in a civil war that enabled him to found a 265-year ruling dynasty.

Contributing editor Richard Heller describes his encounter thus: "The atmosphere at Ericsson's HQ is a bit like that in a war room on the eve of a great, deciding battle.

We're witnesses to a world where arrows and catapults decide battles, but also where inquisitors fuss about the "family unit," would-be bridegrooms are scrutinized by "behavioral ecologists" as well as astrologers and genealogists, where magicians talk like "magistrates" handling "repeat offenders" and hungry villagers consume "healthful produce" when not enduring "ride-by shootings".

It must select a publisher and a top editor and it must decide what battles to fight in a several-front war.

But neither candidate has achieved what is most important for deciding their battle.

Radiaro and Calafia issue a challenge to two Christian warriors to engage them in single combat for the purpose of deciding the battle.

By 14 30 the Viet Cong commander finally made the decision to withdraw, with the artillery deciding the battle in favour of the Australians.

"The ballot should decide, not battles," Nasheed told reporters outside his home in Male.

Securities cases are often decided by battles among experts, who duel over such issues as whether a company's management behaved in line with normal business practices.