Sentences with phrase «skirmish over war»
In a 4th century B.C.E. skirmish over war spoils, a lance impaled the leg of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, killing his horse and leaving the powerful ruler lame, according to ancient literary sources.
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A border war with China was fought over the territory in 1962 and skirmishes continue today.
CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.
Now that war is over, though to be honest the odd skirmish still occurs when I begin again to think that I am the centre.
In the latest skirmish in Australia's five - year - old milk war, some of the nation's most popular milk brands are heading to the Federal Court in a bitter fight over the rights to use the term «A2 protein» on their labels.
This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.
teachers» strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education — stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students.
The legal war over ebook pricing rages on but there's no need to avoid the skirmish.
... Moving over to the wonderful world of video games now and EA announced that a new offline battle mode, Skirmish, is coming to Star Wars Battlefront this Wednesday (July 20) while the Death Star expansion pack is also set to arrive in September (watch a teaser trailer for it here).
As is almost always the case in the culture wars, the event that provokes the skirmish turns out to be much less entertaining and far less significant than the political fight over it.
«The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and «alternative facts».