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Example sentences for: battle

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Newsweek 's Ellis Cose says Kennedy never resolves "the battle between the ethical ideal he cherishes and the moral muddle of the actual world."
Now, as he squinted at the red lights in Kemp's fists and felt his companion's boon personality radiating in his direction, he also faced the knowledge that life was more durable than pain, more difficult than you could have imagined, and yet still you lived, as he now lived, seeing that his last campaign, the battle to the candidacy, would be his last success.
But Sierra Club hardly sees any threats to humanity arising from Kasparov's battle for greatest chess master with IBM's Deep Blue.
Serb nationalists today are fond of noting that in 1389 it was in Kosovo that the Serbian Prince Lazar and his armies made their last stand against the invading Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Kosovo.
Following defeat at the battle of Chaeronea in 338 b.c., however, the Athenians accepted an alliance with other states and even sent Philip a gold crown as a token of submission.