Sentence examples for losing war from inspiring English sources

Indeed, Iran's leadership is skilled at waiting for the right moment, and it looks at a losing battle as merely one battle in a war, not as a losing war.

Do I feel like we're fighting a losing war?

FROM 2005 to 2008, the Republican Party essentially sheared apart under pressure of a losing war.

The history of conservation is a story of many victories in a losing war.

Much of this is justified by the United States' longest losing "war," the one on drugs.

The Nixon Administration, mired in a losing war in Vietnam, was also losing the battle against the truth at home.

India also fought a losing war with China in 1962 over the still-contested Sino-Indian border.

Stephen Soderbergh fashions several stories into a juggernaut of a film about America's losing war on drugs.

(Gen. George Casey, who, like William Westmore­land, became the Army chief of staff after presiding over a losing war effort, is a rare exception).

They allowed the land closest to the water to be developed, but the hard edges are in a losing war with rising sea levels and strong storms.

— Jeff Gordinier The Washington Post: Despite the armies of buff bodies marching into London for the Olympics, Britain is waging a losing war against flab.