With fear and suspicion spreading as fast as the disease, a young playground director and military reject named Bucky Cantor turns the outbreak into his own patriotic battleground.
The best two sides became the only two sides, league, Champions League and Copa del Rey their own private battleground, and as much of the spotlight was shone off the pitch as on it – where there were accusations and acrimony, formal complaints and a complete lack of class.
ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups have weaponized the internet into their own social media battleground.
As the nation hurtled toward a war over slavery, Californians watched as their own state became a battleground over the future of human bondage.
And he was hoping to bolster his own re-election prospects in battleground states without being seen as abandoning his free trade, antitax philosophy.
Bread is a mainstay of the Syrian diet — it accompanies every meal — and in a city paralyzed by two weeks of war, the bakery lines show that basic commerce has become a battleground of its own.
The idea was that atheism would be "defeated on the battleground of its own choosing", but once the fight moved there, religion found itself permanently on the defensive, on a long-term retreat despite the odd counterattack.
