Sentence examples for dubious battle from inspiring English sources

In Dubious Battle was his rock pool.

It casts the Dude's dubious battle in the Faustian light of new military temptations.

The first Steinbeck I read was 'In Dubious Battle.' He actually lived in Sag Harbor.

Classic In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, Penguin Modern Classics £14.99 Steinbeck's novel about politics and labour in the United States, In Dubious Battle, is set in California apple farming country, where a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, becoming a bloody clash of ideologies.

A previous novel, In Dubious Battle, was an examination of earlier labour battles, but he wrote of that book: "I wanted to achieve a kind of detached perspective.

Obama cites John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle," about a labor dispute; Robert Caro's "Power Broker," about Robert Moses; and Studs Terkel's "Working".

Many professionals I know are not project managers by profession and yet most at some point or another have had the dubious pleasure of battling it out with a project management (PM) application MS Project typically the nightmare of choice.

Through Betsy runs the fault-line between cultures: the British monarchy vs the dubious republican, the global battle writ small.

While some products and services are legitimate, many more are suspiciously expensive or of dubious value in the battle against biological attacks.

But that friendly image was smudged out after gangs rampaged in the slums and across the countryside, first protesting a dubious election and then battling largely along ethnic lines.

(According to Riedel, Goldman's position might have been payback for offering dubious testimony in the bigamy battle over John Shubert's estate).