WASHINGTON — The top two Senate Republicans declared Sunday that they would vote against President Obama's nuclear treaty with Russia as the bipartisan spirit of last week's tax-cut deal devolved into a sharp battle over national security in the waning days of the session.
In Cambodia, Government troops fought a sharp battle only 5½ miles east of Pnom penh on the capital's outer de fense ring.
An engagement took place and then a sharp battle in which the Boeotians, who far outnumbered the Phocians, defeated them.
After a sharp battle in which Subercase's horse was shot out from under him, the defenders were pushed back into the fort.
[Page C2.] Maneuverings in Auction Case The contours of a sharp battle over the fate of A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of the auction house Sotheby's, have begun to emerge in courtroom skirmishes and out-of-court maneuverings in the price-fixing case involving Sotheby's and Christie's.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Iraq says Mount Zartak was retaken in a short, sharp battle that left more than 30 IS fighters dead.
In a sharp engagement the hired ships lost four wounded but successfully held back the gunboats during the battle.
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"It was a pretty sharp battle within the agency," said a former senior intelligence official.
While conservatives are fighting for large tax cuts, many other Republicans see more risk than advantage in a sharp election year battle with the President over domestic priorities even if it allows them to showcase new tax cuts.
