Sentence examples for were a battle from inspiring English sources
This debate is usually reduced to cant, as if the battle between the parties were a battle between the sexes.
The public were asked to draw "front lines" of gentrification on the map, as if the process were a battle between old and new.
Today, he repeatedly referred to spiritual strength and his mental resolve, as if there were a battle taking place between mind and body.
The Muslim protests, argued Tony Blair on the Today programme earlier this week, were a battle between the forces of modernisation "and those very powerful forces of reaction based on a perverted view of religion".
Among its holdings were a battle standard used by the conquistador Hernán Cortés and an 18th-century sculpture, "Virgin with Child," attributed to the artist Luisa Roldán, who was Spanish royal sculptor to King Charles II.
The two specific triggers for their departure were a battle between Jabhat al-Nusra and Isis that levelled two houses in their small town, and a drawing his six-year-old niece made one day when he brought her a pack of crayons and some paper.
