Sentence examples for preliminary battle from inspiring English sources

The deathly hallows at least provide the occasion for a lovely animated sequence, much as the inevitable preliminary battle scenes allow for episodes of explosive wand work.

On Monday, Rambus won a preliminary battle, with the courts setting the venue for the trial as San Francisco, where Rambus had wanted it.

Yesterday, the administration lost a preliminary battle to keep task force records secret, though the court invited the vice president to test the one privilege he has refused to invoke.

The jousting is a preliminary battle before a July trial for the first set of student plaintiffs who allege they were harmed by veteran instructor Berndt, who pleaded no contest last November to 23 counts of lewd conduct and received a sentence of 25 years.

When there was an issue over turf, the two warlords of the feuding gangs would uprock, and whoever won this preliminary dance battle decided where the real fight would be.

I was so curious about who was going to win their unsanctioned battle of the kitchen that I quickly forgot who won the sanctioned preliminary fight the episode was supposed to be about.

Labor strife is back in the NFL, with preliminary public battles between new Players Association head DeMaurice Smith and the league's owners setting the stage for fierce negotiations toward the next collective bargaining agreement.

"These guys, believe it or not, were afraid they'd be left out of this war". Smith held the preliminary "BDA" -- the battle damage assessment -- on a folded piece of notebook paper.

On 1 October, as a preliminary to the Battle of Le Transloy, 2nd Brigade's Otago and Canterbury battalions captured strongpoints near Eaucourt L'Abbaye, which fell to the 47th Division two days later.

From 12 to 15 October, the days of skirmishing preliminary to the Battle of Leipzig (16 19 October), Klenau's force took the heavily defended village Liebertwolkwitz, but were forced out in a French counter-attack.

A dance such as the Comanche Sun Dance of the 1870s was an invocation of invulnerability to the White Man's bullets; the dance was a preliminary ritual to battle and would be a war dance and, hence, a weapon dance.