Sentence examples for wrong battle from inspiring English sources

Perhaps we are fighting the wrong battle.

"They picked the wrong battle to fight," he said.

Bad guys will get their hands on guns, regardless #RedNationRising #my2k — RWBEagle (@RWBEagle) 21 Dec 12 Left picking wrong battle with #NRA.

THE ECONOMIST ran an editorial recently arguing that "the World Bank's focus on gay rights is misguided" ("Right cause, wrong battle", April 12th).

But the payroll tax became the wrong battle at the wrong time, framed in the muddiest of terms from Day 1 by Mr. Boehner's chamber.

But when Republicans shut down the government in a spending clash with President Bill Clinton, Mr. Gillespie warned it was the wrong battle to pick.

It forces the right to fight the wrong battles.

We just need many more high-quality schools, and this is why I think in education, we fight all the wrong battles.

But the mayor chooses the wrong battles, Mr. Taggart said: rousting the homeless from the sidewalks, ticketing jaywalkers, prohibiting protests on the steps of City Hall.

It's hard to preach "Good News" when you're making news for fighting the wrong battles.

He also said in the interview published on Wednesday that in our culture, "people feel so aggrieved and crazed and powerless that they're picking the wrong battles".