Sentence examples for sustained battle from inspiring English sources

He has told Americans to brace themselves for sustained battle against terrorists and can hardly seem to be sounding a premature retreat.

After a sustained battle a week ago, the National Guard fled the area, part of a broad and bloody Ukrainian retreat Kiev says was spurred by the rebels gaining an injection of Russian firepower.

The bleak assessment came as government and rebel forces were locked in sustained battle, particularly to the south of Damascus, where in recent days the airport has been caught up in fighting for the capital's suburbs and has been closed to civilian flights for days at a time.

CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen made a rare journey inside the Libyan city of Misrata--which is undergoing sustained battle between rebel forces and the Libyan army--and came under heavy fire when Muammar Gaddafi's troops began striking back at rebel soldiers.

Belgian plans did not call for the garrison of the fort and the attached defending forces to fight a sustained battle against an attacking force; it was assumed that sufficient warning of an attack would be given so that the detachment on the eastern side of the canal could be withdrawn, the bridges destroyed and the garrison ready to fight a delaying action.

The HSUS and Humane Society International have been engaged in a sustained battle here to shut down this cruel and ecologically unsustainable trade.

We marvel that Joey sustains battle after battle as hundreds of other horses fall.

A sustained gun battle broke out between security forces and Islamist militants in Damaturu on Thursday, the police said.

As caustic as Mr. Fussell could be about war (and many other things), he believed that the psychic wounds he sustained in battle were not only indelible but also beneficial.

In April, another airstrike in Kunar was thought to have killed at least 10 children after a foiled attempt to capture a Taliban commander led to a sustained gun battle between special forces troops and insurgents.

The other, a picture entitled The Savage, is a black and white snapshot of the 1980 Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park in which, amid the fervor of a sustained stretch battle, Great Prospector reached over, neck sinews strained to snapping, to maul Golden Derby, the eventual winner.