Sentence examples for fighting of world from inspiring English sources

The mortar made its presence felt in the fierce ground fighting of World War II.

To understand the difficulties of urban combat, one should imagine the brutal trench fighting of World War I -- conducted in an endless multistoried maze.

The cooperage business in the Argonne Forest survived the heavy fighting of World War I, when an Allied offensive pushed through the area in 1918, leaving tens of thousands of casualties, as well as shrapnel that still scars many of the trees.

The territories were occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 until the liberation of Belgium (1944), although some of the heaviest fighting of World War II went on there through January 1945, when the region was a principal locus of the Battle of the Bulge.

Apart from two spikes attributable to the fighting of world wars, this ratio has been on a fairly steady upward march over the past hundred years.

In addition, in early 1915, during the fighting of World War I, bombs were dropped by a German aircraft onto the South African camp near Garub.

Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

The decisive Battle of the Yarmūk River (636), which led to the annihilation of the Byzantine forces and the capture of Syria by the Arabs, was fought near the town; it also was the scene of fighting during World War I. Darʿā is the centre of a grain-growing (especially wheat and barley) region.

And then there's the unpleasantness of fighting in World War I.

Khan and Pacquiao have both been hopeful of fighting the world's top fighter, Floyd Mayweather, without actually securing a shot with the American.

If he wins on Friday his hopes of fighting the world's best featherweight, the WBO world champion, Orlando Salido, will feel deliciously close to fruition.