Sentence examples for grim battle from inspiring English sources

This kingdom within a kingdom sets him in opposition to the new farm owners, and a grim battle ensues.

Two days into this grim battle for Division One survival the great escape is still on for Lancashire.

Instead it will be a grim battle to see if either team can make a start on rescuing their season.

Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik fought a grim battle to a 66-move draw in Game 6 of their world championship chess match in London yesterday.

The movie then alternated between the grim battle on the island and the semi-comic goings on at home, where three of the marines who planted the flag raised money for the war effort at blowsy publicity events.

McIlroy, starting at two-over par shortly after lunch, was engaged in grim battle against the worst of what were appalling conditions clad in a beanie hat and wet suit.

Year after bruising year, Mr. Palmer kept his sights on these grim battles, an epic endeavor that suggests that looking away was never an option.

This strangely disconnected place on the glittering waters of the gulf may in the end tell as much about the course of the war as the grim battles on the desert mainland.

But few have as much stake in what comes next — a quick reopening of schools by Wednesday or a far longer, grimmer battle — as Mr. Emanuel.

Now they know they can win a grim defensive battle, too.

"So many parents do grim daily battle with so many of our nation's largest corporations," he said.