Sentence examples for fatal battle from inspiring English sources

It took 14 years to complete, during which time Rudolph fought a long, fatal battle with mesothelioma, or asbestos cancer.

The Once and Future King itself evokes Malory, imagining him as a young squire in attendance on Arthur on the eve of the last fatal battle.

I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.

In 1565 Rama Raya, the chief minister of Vijayanagar, led the empire into the fatal battle at Talikota, in which its army was routed by the combined forces of the Muslim states of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, and Golconda and the city of Vijayanagar was destroyed.

He meets a young single parent whose energy and optimism in the face of insurmountable odds are genuinely inspiring: on her doorstep, gangs carry on a fitful, often fatal, battle for control of the drug trade, while she strives to educate her children and look after her mother on a pittance.

Mary took a vow to never remarry and always wore the heart-shaped medallion worn by her husband in the fatal Battle of Mohács.

As the son of Judith and Bill Moyers, successful parents who watched helplessly during a 15-year pursuit of oblivion through alcohol and drugs, William Moyers said his near-fatal battle with addiction demonstrates that this "illness of the mind, body and spirit" has no respect for status or opportunity.

His guest for Push IV was Grant Achatz, the world-renowned young visionary behind the Chicago restaurants Alinea and Next, not to mention the subject of a D. T. Max Profile in 2008, when he was recovering from a near-fatal battle with tongue cancer.

Caring After Death Dr. Dan Shapiro, a clinical psychologist at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and himself a cancer survivor who recounted his near-fatal battle in a very moving, amusing and insightful book, "Mom's Marijuana," noted in a recent interview that in the past "physicians didn't view death as the end of the relationship with the family".

Darth Vader was equipped with mechanical lungs and a ventilator following his near-fatal battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi.

In Delmer Daves' Jubal (1956), a western with overtones of Othello, he was the decent, simple rancher provoked by a jealous farmhand (Rod Steiger) into a fatal gun battle with his best friend (Glenn Ford).