Sentence examples for locked in fighting from inspiring English sources

The 766th was not reinforced; North Korean planners intended it to move unseen around the UN lines while the majority of the UN and North Korean troops were locked in fighting around Taegu and the Naktong Bulge.

The 27th Regiment became locked in fierce fighting with the Partisan 27th East Bosnia Division and 38th Bosnia Division, which had launched an offensive near Vlasenica.

Israeli forces were locked in heavy fighting in northern Gaza last night with intensive artillery strikes and jet bombing in the north and across Gaza City as the military pledged to press on with its attack.

Such wrenching violence has been the fate already of the neighboring Swat Valley, and of nearby Bajaur, an area of the tribal region, where the army and militants have been locked in heavy fighting.

Meanwhile, the IF and more moderate rebel forces are locked in fierce in-fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and other extremist Islamist groups who want to create an Islamic state across Iraq and Syria.

The North Korean pressed forward and the 5th Cavalry was immediately locked in hard, seesaw fighting on Hills 203 and 174.

It also found that the government has been locked in a cancer-fighting paradigm that has failed to look at the complexity of cancer causation and, in so doing, has missed the opportunity to create a national campaign for cancer prevention. 1. Implementing the President's Cancer Panel's recommendations to create a new national cancer prevention strategy.

Right now we are locked in a series of contradictions: fighting a war of choice initiated by a president hitherto keen to reduce America's role in the world; supporting the Saudi's when their modes of punishment are as barbaric as those of ISIS; and condemning Iran when Iran is part of the fight against ISIS.

Welsh writer-director's Gareth Evans's first Raid film kept the fighting locked in an Indonesian tower block.

A battalion of at least several hundred soldiers from that brigade will go to the border region in the east, where American forces have been locked in some of the fiercest fighting this year.

Today, this once close-knit community is again locked in battle – only this time, residents are fighting against each other, over proposals for a giant shopping centre on the town's doorstep.