While many a green soldier longed to "see the elephant" – a colloquial term referring to engaging in battle – eagerness often gave way to anxiety and a plethora of fears: of dying, of killing, of failure, of the unknown.
In the absurd context of Big Football, the offer wasn't commensurate for a player who had established himself at the very top of his sport – his duel with Cristiano Ronaldo at Euro 2004 was an engaging, epic battle between two emerging greats – and who Arsenal had previously valued at £30m.
The observatory said government forces were deployed throughout Palmyra afterward, engaging in gun battles with insurgents that left at least eight civilians wounded in the cross-fire.
American troops in the devastated city of Falluja continued going house to house searching for insurgents, occasionally engaging in gun battles.
Wukan's townsfolk had struggled for years, from taking petitions to higher-ups to engaging in bloody battles with the police, to reclaim the collective farmland the local leaders had sold without their blessing.
Once the Jamaican authorities decided to arrest Mr. Coke, his backers in Tivoli Gardens began barricading access by the police and soldiers, and engaging in gun battles with them, the police said.
Similarly, Ms. Yellen clashed with Mr. Sperling during the Clinton administration, when she ran the Council of Economic Advisers and he the National Economic Council, with the two engaging in turf battles and Ms. Yellen at times feeling pushed out of important decision-making, colleagues at the time said.
As the world marked the 20-year milestone in the fight against AIDS, one young symbol of that battle, the engaging Nkosi Johnson, 12, was buried in South Africa, after a short life that he dedicated to telling his story of infection and asking others not to isolate victims of the disease.
In a similar way engaging in a personal battle for control over the symptoms (especially during an increase in symptoms) is a factor that many patients identify with [ 27, 29, 30, 51].
Those vignettes bookending his battles are less engaging, but Delaney's unflinching description of addiction and depression should be required reading for those who've ever struggled with either disease.
