Sentence examples for expected fighting from inspiring English sources

Half expected a bloodless resolution to the confrontation, but a third said they expected fighting.

Hours after the draft security council ceasefire resolution was published, the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, also issued a sobering warning that she expected fighting to continue once the text was formally adopted today or tomorrow.

The competition between Mullah Naquib and Gul Agha had been intense, and many people had expected fighting to break out between them in the days after the Taliban left the city, but Naquib insisted that he had no bad feelings toward Gul Agha, and I didn't press him, because he seemed to like his version of events and wasn't about to change it.

The UN, which says 40,000 Somali children could soon starve to death, expects fighting over food to break out, another reason the Shabab wants to control the ports.

Despite government forces regaining control of the capital of oil-rich Upper Nile state more than a week ago, Cheruoe and the nearly 9,000 others who sought refuge in the cathedral expect fighting to break out again.

Many here expect fighting to break out between the Houthis and Saleh supporters; senior figures in the south are agitating for secession, and militants loyal to Al Qaeda and Islamic State are capitalizing on the chaos to extend their reach.

Al-Kal said the shooting could start again, but the FSA, Syrian army soldiers and the returning refugees did not look as if they expected more fighting.

Col. Abbas al-Tamimi, media officer for the 14th Iraqi Army Division operating in the city, said he expected the fighting to escalate.

Porter expected that fighting for the main objectives would begin soon after the landing, and decided to begin landing his artillery and heavy mortars with the assault waves of infantrymen with the tanks coming ashore soon afterwards.

"Nobody actually expects the fighting to stop in the short term," she said.

You might expect cock fighting to be popular in a poor country such as the Philippines, but it was also tolerated in three states of America.