Sentence examples for last battle with from inspiring English sources

In 275 bc, Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was defeated at Beneventum in his last battle with the Romans.

Mr. Campbell's last battle with Stanford arose when the university demanded that he retire at 65, the official retirement age.

That perfectly valid question hovers over "Wit," Margaret Edson's tough Pulitzer Prize-winning play, now an HBO film, about a literary scholar's anguished last battle with cancer.

"I had a neck ache for half-an-hour afterwards," Taylor said, as he recalled his last battle with Irfan, whose height actually suits the batsman, a strong back-foot player who feeds off bounce.

If he has to choose between some Götterdämmerung in which he stages one last battle with his party and preserving New Labour for his successor, there's no serious doubt about which it will be.

Watching a literary scholar's agonizing last battle with cancer doesn't make the most relaxing sit, but Emma Thompson is brilliant as Vivian Bearing in an HBO film adaptation of Margaret Edison's tough Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

In a battle of soul singers, Usher teamed Mickens, whom he'd stolen from Shakira during the last battle rounds, with Wilkins, the young man from South L.A. who had been with him from the start.

However, the last battle is staged with tremendous verve and the ritualistic finale combines pathos and grandeur.

The town is about to lose its last battle, she said, with the Toll Brothers company, one of the largest builders in the state.

The Australians fought their last battle during 24 26 July 1953, with 2 RAR holding off a concerted Chinese attack along the Samichon River and inflicting significant casualties for the loss of five killed and 24 wounded.

Reduced to one-line descriptions, Besson's films couldn't sound less promising: free diving movie The Big Blue is a character study of a man with little discernible character, The Last Battle is a post apocalyptic drama with no dialogue, Atlantis is an underwater documentary without narration, Subway is a crime thriller populated by New Wave poseurs.