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Example sentences for: battles

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The WP runs an op-ed by Henry Kissinger that denounces the ineffectiveness of America's current Iraq policy: "We win the battles, but Saddam Hussein is winning the wars," Kissinger says.
This walled town’s strategic location made it the site of many important battles over thousands of years.
Or this, as Inman battles the three thieves: "[H]e eventually smote the three down to their knees in the dirt of the street so they looked like those of the Romish faith at prayer."
To recount Wallace's famous civil rights battles, the film uses facts that are more or less accurate (though it includes two major fictionalizations along the way).
To fight battles I want fought.