Sentence examples for expected battle from inspiring English sources

The Trimble camp may have survived a closer than expected battle with the anti-Good Friday agreement wing of the deeply divided party, but the skirmish could do irreparable harm to both unionism and the peace process.

Gunnery developments in the late 1890s and the early 1900s, led in the United Kingdom by Percy Scott and in the United States by William Sims, were already pushing expected battle ranges out to an unprecedented 6000 yards, a distance great enough to force gunners to wait for the shells to arrive before applying corrections for the next salvo.

Mr. Bush said he expected battles in Congress as members of the 88 committees and subcommittees that have jurisdiction over existing domestic security agencies are forced to give up authority.

Expect battles on a number of fronts in the years ahead.

And lobbyists, expecting battles over taxes and health care in 2009, are pouring money into the campaigns of Democratic candidates for Congress and the White House.

While most experts expect battles over voting restrictions in the coming years, they say that ultimately those efforts cannot hold back the wave of change that will bring about a multiethnic South.

But they also expect battles within the Democratic Party over questions like whether the billion dollars in aid to rebuild Afghanistan that Mr. Obama promised during the campaign should now be spent on job-creation projects at home.

Els expected a battle.

Clutching my bag on arrival, I expected to battle the bustle of a big city station.

"It could drag out," the mayor said of the expected legal battle.

The two sides are also expected to battle over whether Mr. Rajaratnam is a flight risk.