Sentence examples for of a combat between from inspiring English sources

Back in 1922, the late Heywood Broun, who is not remembered primarily as a boxing writer, wrote a durable account of a combat between the late Benny Leonard and the late Rocky Kansas for the lightweight championship of the world.

Some versions of oral history describe a combat between their armies at Ambohibato in which Andriamasinavalona emerged victorious.

The work has apocalyptic overtones insofar as the enemy attack against Palestine was seen as a combat between the forces of evil and the people of God.

Scattered through the Prophets and Holy Writings (the two latter portions of the Hebrew Bible) are allusions to other ancient myths e.g., to that of a primordial combat between YHWH and a monster variously named Leviathan (Wriggly), Rahab (Braggart), or simply Sir Sea or Dragon.

As Cupertinos suggest, onscreen language is both a collaboration and a kind of combat between user and medium.

The idea of single combat between a man and a savage beast is the stuff of legends and if a princess is saved in the process it soon becomes a fairytale.

The ballet, commissioned by Roland Petit for his Ballets de Paris, was inspired by Tasso's story of mortal combat between a Christian knight and a Saracen maiden.

This archaic pattern of affirming and celebrating the order of the cosmos was expressed in the typical creation myth of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean world, which consisted of a creation by combat between the forces of order and chaos.

A violent variation on the same mechanical bodysuits reappears, memorably, in "Avatar," which culminates in a scene of bloody single combat between a Na'vi warrior and the evil Marine colonel, who has strapped himself into one such machine.

Libya now exists in a state of perpetual combat between numerous warlords and their militias, has become a springboard for ISIS, and has destabilized much of North Africa.

It was a time of intense combat between both sides, and their relationship was frowned upon by everyone.