All the game has left is endless skirmishes and to do lists.
By this time he had honed his skills as a competitor in the rapacious marketplace that was 19th-century Italian opera or, as he always saw it, the grim site of major battles, endless skirmishes, and equivocal victories.
With potentially bottomless pockets, these spoilers could wage their private war against any piece of legislation they don't like with endless skirmishes that not only defy the will of the people but also distract from the serious problem-solving in which our nation must engage.
The army says it has destroyed the bases supporting the group's supply lines; it will be overcome "in a few days", a spokesman says.Optimism is spreading among diplomats after months of worrying that the UN intervention brigade might get bogged down in endless skirmishes.
Employers have managed to keep hiring, however stingily, despite the best efforts of Congress to slow the economy down with endless skirmishes over the budget.
The most benign reaction to such threat would be to cut off energy supplies to Ukraine; more likely would be endless military skirmishes and small territorial grabs that would sap Ukraine's resources and eliminate any hope for prosperity; and failing that, a conquest of Ukraine.
The anger came out in an endless series of skirmishes.
By the middle of the book the reader feels lost in a seemingly endless wasteland of skirmishes and forced marches.
What the Labour Party and the country need is a spiky and argumentative leadership contest which allows party members and voters to find out what the people who would be prime minister propose to do in the job.An end in sightDespite the chancellor's relatively decent record running the economy, the endless Brown-Blair skirmishes have left deep doubts about what Prime Minister Brown would do.
Caught in the seemingly endless French and English skirmishes over territory and succession to the French crown, Joan (who was a farm girl) felt compelled to act.
For combatants in the endless baby-in-bars skirmishes, children should be out by 7 p.m. PLAYLIST A bubbly mix from artists like the Neptunes and Panjabi MC pumps from an iPod.
