Sentence examples for of decisive battle from inspiring English sources

"This has been a year of decisive battle between left and right," said Mr Zhang, denouncing the authorities' measures to curb Maoist websites as "fascist".

Jang was quoted as saying that his corps would annihilate its enemies and "turn each ravine into their death pitfall when the hour of decisive battle comes".

If he makes an observation about, say, Gen. Robert E. Lee's failure to win a major decisive battle against the Union Army, he will follow it with sentences like these: "Indeed the era of decisive battles was drawing to a close.

He says that the defeat of the crusaders in the past was not a result of decisive battles between the Muslim and Christian armies, but was a process of exhaustion and depletion.

A protracted stalemate rather than a series of decisive battles.

Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela.

Over the last 10 days, Ukraine's forces have lost nearly an entire summer of gains as the pro-Russia forces have pushed a new front in the country's southeast and won a number of decisive battles amid mounting evidence of significant on-the-ground support from Russian soldiers.

Also in the vicinity are Dundurn Castle (1835; a 72-room mansion built for politician Sir Allan Napier MacNab), the Royal Botanical Gardens (1941), and Stoney Creek Battlefield Monument, the site of a decisive battle of the War of 1812.

Ruling for 15 years during what has been termed the golden age of the Genoese medieval commune, Oberto Doria was a hero of the decisive Battle of Meloria (1284) against Pisa, in which 250 members of the Doria family are said to have participated.

Later the province was the site of a decisive Battle of Pichincha in the Latin American wars of independence.

The aftermath of the decisive Battle of Culloden, which effectively ended Jacobite hopes of a Stuart restoration, was widely felt.