Sentence examples for edge of battle from inspiring English sources
"Combat" was a Vietnam-era show that comforted viewers with heroic tableaus from a just war; "War Stories" is a show that plays up wartime injustices at a moment when American troops are gathered at the edge of battle.
The forward bases, containing one to four aircraft, were to be located 20 mile from the forward edge of battle (FEBA), while a more established permanent airbase would be located around 50 mile from the FEBA.
You could be on the edge of a battle in the north, near the ironically named Demilitarised Zone, in the morning, and back in Saigon having a drink after a shower in the early evening.
Somewhere on the way to the advertised edge-of-your-seat battle for New York, the Nets took the wrong subway, as Mike Vaccaro writes in The New York Post, and ended up back in their old neighborhood.
"Where are we going with this?" one young man asked another watching at the edge of the Ramses Square battle.
This has put Hobby Lobby at the leading edge of a legal battle that poses the intriguing question: Can a corporation have a conscience?
It is almost unthinkable that a team who were so successful last season and won so many plaudits, winning the Capital One Cup and finishing ninth in the league, could find themselves on the edge of a relegation battle this season, but that is where Michael Laudrup's side find themselves.
The film is propulsive, barely stopping for breath.There are exciting chases, suspenseful close calls, edge-of- your-seat battles and adrenaline-charged set-pieces".
Indeed the numerical and technical edge at the point of battle, continued Stockings, "was more often than not in favour of the attackers themselves".
This week they have blocked the main road between Kabul and the southern centre of Kandahar with fighting, leaving hundreds of travellers stranded at the edge of raging gun battles.
