Sentence examples for regular skirmishes from inspiring English sources

Distrust is mutual, and there are regular skirmishes along the line of control in Kashmir.

Maybe the regular skirmishes with competitors and Ofcom on wholesale pricing also held him back.

On the motorway above the main migrant camp – home to 3,000 people – there were regular skirmishes in the afternoon.

Antigovernment anger continued to simmer; regular skirmishes between police and protesters led the government to impose a new ban on public demonstrations in October.

Since 2003, a ceasefire between the two nuclear-armed neighbours has largely held, despite the small but regular skirmishes each summer.

In addition to defending their encampments, the company's men built a new outpost, and in the midst of regular skirmishes with the Taliban and other insurgents they went about the sometimes confusing business of trying to win hearts and minds.

Outside powers have urged the GNA to move from its base in neighbouring Tunisia to the Libyan capital, but Tripoli has seen regular skirmishing between rival militias in recent weeks.

Relations between the two countries have been touchy for decades, marked by regular border skirmishes.

In the 1980's Sitio Avocado was a no-go area, as regular battles and skirmishes took place between the rebels and the military.

The fighting, in which both sides used heavy weapons, went far beyond the regular low-level skirmishing which has regularly punctuated a ceasefire brokered in February by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France, but which has nonetheless claimed lives on an almost daily basis.

There were two serious skirmishes between regular Mexican and U.S. troops in the spring, and full-scale war was averted only when Wilson withdrew Pershing's column some months later.