Sentence examples for lopsided battle from inspiring English sources
The Army's 101st Airborne Division won a lopsided battle against irregular forces in Karbala, the holy Shiite city near Najaf in central Iraq.
Fao Palace was captured by troops of the Third Division's First Brigade after a lopsided battle against nine snipers, two of whom were killed.
The match against the Kangaroos, who are desperate to regain the mantle of the world's best under new coach Mal Meninga, looks on paper at least to be a lopsided battle.
In what has been a lopsided battle between outsize billboards and defenseless trees, this city has drawn the line to protect the trees, putting a $500 bounty on the heads of "tree trimming bandits" committing "crimes against nature".
"She was in a competition of caring, and yet her fellow contestants, like Tracey's mother, were so ill-equipped when placed beside her that it was a fatally lopsided battle," Smith's narrator thinks.
After spending months cleaning sand out of his rifle — so feverish with murderous anticipation that he almost blows a buddy's head off after an argument — Swofford ends up merely a spectator of a lopsided battle waged with bombs, not bullets.
Journalists from the BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, Al Jazeera English and a small number of other news organizations have managed to enter Syria without visas, like Mr. Shadid and Mr. Hicks did, and bear witness to the lopsided battles between the Assad government and opposition fighters and citizens.
The recession has swelled the number of people showing up in New York State courts who cannot afford lawyers to 2.1 million annually, often turning eviction, foreclosure, debt collection and other civil cases into lopsided battles that raise questions about the fairness of the legal system.
And when you pit mobs ignited by a sudden outrage, fuelled by long oppression, against a nervous army that is equipped to kill and shaped by a national belief in never showing weakness, you tend to get bloody, lopsided battles, punctuated by nasty revenge attacks.The intifada globalisesMuch more surprising is the wider Arab and Islamic resonance of these events.
Sixty-two yeago ago the labor movement took the fight literally to capitalism's door-step in one of the most lopsided battles in history.
Strangely enough, "La Bête" is let down by its words, as Mr. Rylance's refined study in vulgarity triumphs in a far too-lopsided battle.
