Sentence examples for devastating battle from inspiring English sources

First, he was sidelined by a devastating battle with drugs.

Even as momentum shifted, it was still hard to envision Colonel Qaddafi's forces retaking Benghazi without a far more devastating battle than the one Zawiyah witnessed.

Rather than compromise in the face of US demands, most expect him to lead his Taliban regime into one final, devastating battle.

In medieval legend, a snake caused a devastating battle by biting a man on the ankle during a truce – the massacre that erupted wiped out the knights of Camelot and killed King Arthur.

Certainly, no one in American movies has ever done anything quite as openhearted as Eastwood's 2006 feat of recounting the devastating battle of Iwo Jima from both points of view.

In 2007, Mufti moved from New York to Islamabad to work as a foreign correspondent, and encountered a new era of violence that he describes as an "auto-immune disorder" — a devastating battle between the ideals of Islam and of Western democracy that the constitution of Pakistan aspires to reconcile.

FALLUJA, Iraq — After two devastating battles between American forces and Sunni insurgents in 2004, this city needed almost everything — new roads, clean water, electricity, health care.

Equally important, the museum, its trustees and the university trustees have avoided any devastating battles over the future of the collection, like the one at Brandeis University, where the museum collection was almost sold until an uproar from donors and the public stopped the process.

But its outlines were decided in the first few weeks, when the French held the Germans on the Marne, just short of Paris, and what began as a war of movement crumpled into a war of positions, punctuated by wild and devastating battles that contributed little except more shambles, ruins and slaughter.

Stinebeck spent seven years researching and writing the novel, making sure it was accurate in the struggles soldiers on both sides faced, the devastating battles on quiet country sides, and Thomas' brilliant strategies which helped win the Civil War.

Over the past week, thousands of people queued up from early morning until late night, snaking around the streets from the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum around to Dien Bien Phu, the street named after the devastating 1954 battle where General Giap ended French domination in Indochina.