Sentence examples for immediate battles from inspiring English sources

But, on Monday, the president stepped back from those immediate battles to explain what it means in the broadest sense to be "we the people," Mr. Obama's most eloquent description of our common heritage.

Islamic State jihadists are lapping at the country's borders.But a more immediate battle looms.

The immediate battle is over financing the team's day-to-day operations.

The immediate battle is to revive the economy.That urgent task now looks even tougher.

But "with us," he said, "it's an immediate battle and a strike and people in the streets".

In the House of Commons debate he is to lead on Thursday, Mr. Cameron will be fighting a more immediate battle, over the government's harsh austerity measures.

Perhaps the most immediate battle will be in Illinois, a populous state with a Democratic legislature where the Senate has already approved same-sex marriage.

"Lower testosterone may keep individuals, who lost and got seriously wounded, from engaging in another immediate battle where they might suffer even more damage".

Kevin Rudd did OK in the immediate battle of last night's debate – he was less tetchy and his answers were more direct and easier to understand.

He told me, with a kind of uncanny clairvoyance, that it was urgent for "us" to start looking beyond the immediate battle in Afghanistan, and past even the challenges of the Cold War, to a new threat that was arising.

The threat from the ocean suddenly seemed to recede as a more immediate battle unfolded in the streets of the capital, Malé, with security forces and supporters of Mr. Nasheed clashing.