Sentence examples for fierce combat from inspiring English sources

Falluja was the scene of fierce combat.

Steely, clattering shards of noise depict the forces of Michael and Lucifer in fierce combat.

Ten men, all unclothed, are engaged in fierce combat with weapons including knives, swords and axes.

Mali's forces, meanwhile, are well to the rear and are not engaged in the fierce combat in the northern mountains.

Just down the street, formerly the scene of fierce combat, hundreds of people milled around fruit and vegetable stalls.

Still, the unusually fierce combat among the candidates, and a public fed up with having too little say in public affairs, have upended the usual script.

In early 1992, the Dubrovnik area saw fierce fighting while combat operations largely ceased elsewhere in Croatia following the Sarajevo Agreement of 2 January 1992.

Whenever the move on Mosul occurs, American and Iraqi planners anticipate a prolonged campaign of fierce urban combat.

"And no matter what has happened since, your valour in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honoured in the annals of military history.

Dozens of people died in fierce urban combat after Mr. Coke's supporters barricaded the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of West Kingston and engaged in what the authorities called gun battles with the police and soldiers searching for him.

At least some of the foreign fighters recruited by Mr. bin Laden could be heard pleading for mercy over their radios after a morning of heavy shelling on Tuesday and fierce ground combat in the bare brown hills.