Sentence examples for great battle between from inspiring English sources

Beyond Carrhae and Edessa there was a great battle between the emperor Valerian and us.

Even the great battle between left and right seems muted now.

"It was a great battle between Leskanic and Sammy," Chicago first baseman Matt Stairs said.

It was destroyed early in the 7th century by the king of Northumbria in the last great battle between the Britons of Wales and the Anglo-Saxons.

The central plot concerns a great battle between the five sons of Pandu (Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and the twins Nakula and Sahadeva), called the Pandavas, and the sons of Pandu's brother Dhritarasta.

And it was the scene of perhaps the last great battle between the old industrial Hudson Valley and the new one, when a coalition of interest groups came together to defeat a proposed coal-fired cement plant with a 40-story smokestack capable of producing two million tons of cement a year.

Cyclone Promotions' Barry McGuigan concurred and talked about it being "a genuinely global event", comparable to the great battles between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales.

Down the years, there have been many great battles between the red and blue halves of Manchester, and the Guardian's coverage of these encounters still makes for fascinating reading.

The roots of such intolerance from the powers that be are largely historic, dating back to the greatest battle between the west and the Muslim world, namely the crusades.

The second time Lilith came, she stormed the garden's main gate, and a great battle ensued between her and Adam in which she was finally defeated.

Today in Washington a great battle is unfolding between Republicans preparing to filibuster the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the new consumer protection agency and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass)., who is battling to save the agency from these Republican attacks.