Sentence examples for public wars from inspiring English sources

Bob Chapman is what's known as a shareholder activist — a breed of corporate raider who, out of some combination of self-love and Robin Hood-ish altruism, wages public wars against the highly paid leadership of underperforming corporations.

There's certainly no good reason to assume that the secret wars of the post-9/11 era have gone much better than our mostly disastrous public wars.

The result was another public war of words.

The decision led to a very public war of words between Adobe and Mr. Jobs.

While Lawson may have lost her court battle, she claims victory in the public war.

George Steinbrenner has not been able to draw Manager Joe Torre into a public war of words.

In a bitter public war of words, United and Real blamed each other for the move's collapse.

Churchill, though "burdened by defeats, his sensitivities scuffed by the increasing backbiting of backbenchers" and public war-weariness, never flinched.

The suspension was the culmination of a nasty public war of words and deeds between Haynesworth and Coach Mike Shanahan.

Ultimately the "secret war" in Pakistan represents an alternative model to Bush's very public "war on terror".

But that was when the problems began.For the past three months, the Alliance's 66 MPs have fought a public war over whether to dump Mr Day.