Sentence examples similar to two skirmish from inspiring English sources

When these two skirmishes finished, fighting began again in Fallujah.

In Cambodia's Fishhook re gion, where allied troops still are searching for Communist base camps, Government troops lost one killed and seven wounded in two skirmishes yesterday.

During the American Civil War, the city was occupied by Union troops and was the scene of two skirmishes with Confederates.

My long war with multiple sclerosis and two skirmishes with colon cancer have taken their toll on my body.

One skirmish put Phelps and his command in grave peril.

In 1971 his one skirmish with the races ended with a crash at Quarter Bridge.

Not the fatwa, but the battle against radical Islam, of which this was one skirmish.

"Is this really localism?" asks Barry Gibbs, a disillusioned Conservative councillor.Tetbury is just one skirmish in a war between local and central government over housing.

One skirmish in particular, in which Jen, disguised as a boy, takes on a whole restaurant full of hoodlums, seems designed to satisfy Hong Kong expectations.

This account views Prohibition, which was put into effect by the 18th Amendment in January 1920, as one skirmish in a war waged by small-town Protestants who felt besieged by the forces of change sweeping their nation.

Okrent, the author of four previous books and the first public editor of The New York Times, views Prohibition as one skirmish in a larger war waged by small-town white Protestants who felt besieged by the forces of change then sweeping their nation — a theory first proposed by the historian Richard Hofstadter more than five decades ago.