Sentence examples for guard battle from inspiring English sources

But more importantly it highlights a growing realization that Hamas is emerging politically strengthened from the death and destruction in Gaza while Israel is fighting a rear guard battle to turn military success into political victory.

"I'm not here to do any point guard battles this year".

If right-wingers can achieve that much in the INF debate, their rear-guard battle against Reagan will have succeeded.

Patience have been frayed in large part by a growing sense that the Communist-led transition Government has been waging a rear-guard battle to secure its position, restore its secret police and undermine the opposition.

A spokesman for British forces in the country, Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, said: "The patrol was operating near the newly built patrol base Walizi, part of the ongoing operations by the Coldstream Guards battle group in that area to bring security to local people".

Ferrari, realising they are up fighting a rear-guard battle in the championship, spent much of the session preparing tyres for qualifying.

The Red Bull is a faster car than the Ferrari, in which Alonso has been fighting a rear-guard battle for some time.

He was fiercely determined to fight a rear-guard battle against modern trends.

In addition units from the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards Battle Group and the Afghan National Army were brought in to provide protection.

With pistol in hand, he found the guards battling seven or eight Tigers who were trying to free some of their comrades.

Both sides, Dutrillaux says, should know better than to fight such "petty rear-guard battles".