Sentence examples for doing combat with from inspiring English sources
For years, Mr. Lance has waged a lonely campaign as the prophet of fiscal doom, doing combat with the Whitman administration, then with Governor McGreevey, over their budgetary practices.
The musical language sometimes takes on a waltzing lilt in ensemble songs that evoke the scintillating Stephen Sondheim score for "A Little Night Music," but Mr. Schmidt often uses spikier, more dissonant colorings when Eugene's tense misery is doing combat with James's increasingly ruffled complacency.
Early in World War I they were used as scout planes for artillery spotting, but it was quickly discovered that they could be armed and do combat with one another, shoot down enemy bombers, and conduct other tactical missions.
The stronger the labor movement, the stronger the forces that can do combat with the status quo.
She angrily did combat with Renata, a foster mother who evicted one of Courter's charges, but kept the boy's Christmas presents.
They flare their tail feathers, do combat with competitors, whatever it takes to win the heart of one of those sweet little hens who seem to be barely paying attention.
The ship withdrew at the request of the Japanese, following contemptuous messages sent by the rebels to the besieging troops: Are there no longer courageous soldiers in the realm to do combat with us, and weren't they ashamed to have called in the assistance of foreigners against our small contingent?
The team is already doing space combat with Star Wars: Battlefront, so the future seems unlikely.
It is the worldview of men who do not have the moral toughness, the spiritual strength to stand up and do single combat with life". .
Few workers, after all, have the thousands of dollars on hand to hire a lawyer to represent them either in a lawsuit or arbitration to do legal combat with their employers.
The average age of a new recruit this year was 20, and many of them joined up for reasons that had nothing to do with combat, or even with patriotism.
