Sentence examples for expected the battle from inspiring English sources

Military planners expected the battle of Kut to be difficult and long.

Simon Timson, the UK Sport performance director who will leave to take up the same role at the Lawn Tennis Association in October, said other nations had caught up with Britain's high-performance system and he expected the battle for medals to be intense.

Brunel said he expected the battle to be between the Northampton front row - the Tongan Soane Tongauiha, the Kiwi turned Brit, Dylan Hartley and the Zimbabwean Brian Mujati - and his trio of Perry Freshwater, once a Heineken Cup winner with Leicester and ten times capped by England, hooker Guilhem Guirado, and the long time France tight-head and Perpignan captain, Nicolas Mas.

While Abercrombie had expected the battle to begin at 1 pm, by 12 30 elements of the New York regiments on the left began engaging the French defenders.

Although not every American soldier was killed as Triet had expected, the battle at Ong Thanh was nonetheless a costly affair for the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment.

Both army councils met; Essex's plan to force his way past the Royalists seemed feasible, and many Parliamentarians, loathe to give up the ground they had taken, fully expected the battle to continue.

When Poland joined the war, did you expect the battle to be so difficult?

It would be naive to expect the battle over Britain's membership of the European Union to be distinguished by nuance.

Mr. Ackman has said that he expects the battle to take time, like his nearly decade-long wager against the bond insurance firm MBIA.

Anti-Isis forces have effectively surrounded Mosul after more than six weeks of fighting but most observers expect the battle to last into 2017.

Both the Republican and Democratic Parties say they plan to spend record amounts of money on get-out-the-vote operations this fall, showing that both sides expect the battle for the White House and Congress to be so tight that slight changes in voter turnout could carry the day.