Sentence examples similar to sharp skirmish from inspiring English sources
We had some sharp skirmishes, in all of which the men behaved splendidly.
The convention, which opens on Thursday, promises some sharp skirmishes as the delegates choose between Patrick J. Buchanan and John Hagelin.
Unlike the tame and carefully planned Republican convention that anointed Gov. George W. Bush of Texas on Thursday, the four-day meeting of Reform Party members promises some sharp skirmishes as the delegates choose between Patrick J. Buchanan and John Hagelin for the party's nomination and the $12.6 million in federal campaign funds that goes with it.
The exchange represents a sharp escalation of the skirmishes that flare up along the disputed border from time to time.
"It was quite a short skirmish.
Just last week, Gov. David A. Paterson and leading Senate Democrats openly skirmished over how best to prevent sharp service cuts in the financially troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
In the skirmish, a Danish garrison of 170 men put up a sharp but ineffectual resistance that killed one British marine and wounded two before surrendering.
The move by Mr. Ahmadinejad to take over the oil ministry and project himself on the world stage at the June 8 meeting in Vienna was seen as the latest skirmish in a confrontation with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that surfaced a month ago and put a sharp public focus on the widening cracks within Iran's ruling elite.
The motive for said skirmish?
JERUSALEM, May 28 — In a series of skirmishes across the Israeli-Lebanese border, militants fired rockets deep inside northern Israel before dawn on Sunday, and Israel delivered a sharp response, pounding militant bases in Lebanon and trading artillery fire across the frontier.
