"uneven battle" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where one side is at a disadvantage in a contest or battle. For example, "The small group of rebels was severely outnumbered in the uneven battle against the government forces."
It's an uneven battle and Scotland are only doing what's allowed within the rules.
Ted Kaufman, the former Democratic senator from Delaware who played a role in drafting Dodd-Frank, lamented Wall Street's heavy spending in Washington, saying, "this is the most uneven battle since Little Big Horn".
As I mention in my latest column for the IHT, both sides are trying to harness social networks to promote their rival versions of the unfolding and uneven battle between the conventional might of the Israel Defense Forces and the rocket-firing units of Hamas's armed wing.
Frightened residents who fled the town earlier in the day, with more than 1,000 crossing into Turkey, said those who remained behind— which they numbered at 5,000 from a population of more than 50,000, — were armed and prepared to fight, raising the prospect of an uneven battle.
Aside from representing only about 70 percent of a range of groups opposing Mr. Assad, the council has yet to seriously address melding itself with the increasingly independent internal alliances in Homs and other cities across Syria trapped in an uneven battle for survival, they said, warning that the council runs the risk of being supplanted.
The director and Mr. Stender have the good sense to let us know little by little that the urbane Charles is not a very nice man, especially not at the end, when he gleefully realizes that in this uneven battle of the sexes he is free of both wives and can escape into a life in which he need never give a thought to anyone else.
In the Muslim world, of course, but also in much of Europe, the uneven battles on the West Bank have encouraged demonstrators to burn the American flag on the streets, alongside the flag of Israel.
Timothy Snyder was a friend of and collaborator with the late, great Tony Judt, and he has become known most recently for his coverage of the uneven battles between Russian and Ukrainian nationalism.
As David versus Goliath battles go it is hard to imagine a more uneven fight than the one about to play out in front of the US supreme court between Vernon Hugh Bowman and Monsanto.
Niese (10-8) pitched six uneven innings while battling lingering symptoms of the flu, which he contracted earlier in the week.
It is a battle with uneven racial odds.
