Sentence examples for not a decisive battle from inspiring English sources

To them, therapy was part of a continuing adaptation, not a decisive battle.

If "not exactly a decisive battle", Gettysburg was the end of Confederate use of Northern Virginia as a military buffer zone, the setting for Grant's Overland Campaign.

They are not democratic elections but a decisive battle between the Egyptian revolution and the Mubarak regime.

Although the Poles had to retreat from the Bug River line, they were not defeated so far, and a decisive battle or battles at more favorable locations closer to Warsaw were expected.

Samuel could not stop him in the open field or engage the Emperor in a decisive battle, and suffered many defeats and began to lose his strength".

In 260 bce a decisive battle between Qin and Zhao destroyed Zhao's military strength, though Qin was not able to complete its conquest of Zhao for several decades.

The Iraqi leader also believed that the United States would not be willing to lose many troops in action, and therefore sought to draw Coalition ground troops into a decisive battle.

A decisive battle would kill the rebellion in its infancy.

"It is a decisive battle for both sides".

We will fight a decisive battle to the end".

But he is a commander in a decisive battle in Syria — hardly a marginal figure.