Sentence examples for full-scale battle from inspiring English sources

Misratan militias recently fought a full-scale battle with rivals in Bani Walid.

The objective is to get to the stock exchange, but there is a full-scale battle raging.

Accordingly, when the Royal Navy boarded the ship 20 miles out from Haifa, a full-scale battle ensued.

The Pickering confirmation fight is the first full-scale battle over a judicial nomination in the Bush administration.

This year the motif is Napoleonic, with a full-scale battle tent sitting in the gallery, replete with a spyglass, charts and paintings of Géricaultian steeds.

"Here at last is a full-scale battle against a recognizable threat to our entire way of life," he says, in full cry against the euro.

The violence sometimes takes the form of full-scale battles.

In May, 2013, ISIS fighters started making kidnapping runs and attacking F.S.A. leaders, and, by late summer, there were full-scale battles with F.S.A. troops.

Rather than be left to butcher each other this time around, the sides may yet see advantage in letting limited violence continue without lurching into full-scale battles.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep.

The timetable for pulling back artillery is being delayed amid accusations of the rebels continuing to fire at Ukrainian positions, but it is unlikely that full-scale battles will start in the immediate future.