Sentence examples for unequal combat from inspiring English sources

And it is fair to assume that hundreds of al-Qaeda's foot-soldiers have been killed during the unequal combat of recent days.

At the Rue Blomet he painted The Farm, which he sold to Ernest Hemingway, a friend and occasional sparring partner, who dwarfed Miró in unequal combat, and Head of the Spanish Dancer, which went to his friend, Picasso.

After an hour of unequal combat, the badly damaged Congress surrendered.

Commodore Alain-Joseph Le Veyer-Belair immediately steered Impétueux towards the coast to avoid the unequal combat and drove his ship on shore at 08 15.

In a description whose pathos is heightened by the fact that it is seen through a compatriot's eyes, Troilus is infelix puer ("unhappy boy") who has met Achilles in "unequal" combat.

Learning of the strange ship to the southeast, Captain Thompson deduced that it must be one of Villeneuve's ships and immediately ordered all sails set in an effort to avoid an unequal combat: Généreux carried 30 more guns than Leander and was more strongly built, carrying a broadside of over 1,000 lbs to Leander's 432 lbs.

The Discrimination Act is, however, limited to combat unequal treatment on the grounds of sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, and age (Swedish Code of Statutes 2008:567).

For example, greater accountability of supervisory decisions, and a transparent bureaucratic framework for the allocation of roles, might prevent the abuses of power reported here, and have been shown to combat unequal allocation along group lines in other contexts (Blalock, 1991; see Reskin, 2003).

Successive government's have struggled with solutions to combat a longstanding economic geography which is unequal, unbalanced and divergent.

Yet unless leaders like him recognize the role played by unequal sexual relations in spreading this pandemic, efforts to combat AIDS are likely to fail.

However, in order to combat deeper inequality of opportunities, such as unequal access to the labor force, health, education and financial access between men and women, policy markers should focus on more targeted policy interventions.