skirmish

The headmaster and teacher skirmish for a term over the question of corporal punishment.

She was a woman of forty now, with a faint skirmish line of gray hairs in her head.

Not being used to such a collectivist set-up, Apple refused to pay up, which triggered the first big legal skirmish over smart-phones.

Light infantry forces form a skirmish line to slow the enemy advance and keep their own line unmolested by enemy skirmishers.

There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.

But thanks to Mr McCain's "hold" tactic, the Republicans seem to have won the first labour skirmish.

The poppy skirmish was one we could have done without.

The skirmish killed at least six soldiers and forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety.

There was a skirmish between the KIA troops and Burmese Army soldiers, escorting the weapons train, added KIA officers.

Ideally suited for both skirmish warfare and fleet support, destroyers are touted as one of the best anti-frigate platforms available.

Go out of the barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on.

From your previous skirmish you've gained a better sense of her evil energy.

The skirmish was not the first of its kind, nor will it be the last.

A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

A skirmish ensued between the men and Ms. Sarkar's friends. One man grabbed her scarf and hand, she says, and she slapped him.

As I sifted through the rubble of my marriage skirmish, I had a thought.

In case of an explosion or skirmish in Moscow, one would think about radical nationalistic thugs first of all.

The acting head of the force has himself gone to the site, reflecting deep concerns that the border skirmish could trigger a wider conflict.

An Indian TV crew captured this skirmish between a bodyguard for actor Brad Pitt and a British photographer.

One South Korean Marine was killed in the skirmish and at least a dozen more were injured, military officials said.

As l sifted through the rubble of my marriage skirmish, l had a thought.

There will be units included in the Map Editor which will not be in the standard multiplayer skirmish mode.

But the skirmish over drilling is the opening stage of a much bigger fight over environmental policy.

The propensity for tuxedoed birds to enact something like a gay marriage has since provided a memorable skirmish in the culture wars.

Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.

Our skirmish went on for 20 minutes; finally an infantry platoon came up behind us and chased the North Koreans into the valley.

After a short skirmish, the five police once again had the madman pinned on the ground. A group of people had already gathered around them.

Like the naval skirmish, there is an element of bravado.

Guatemala was the first skirmish of the cold war in Latin America.

The skirmish grew into a major battle.

Yet the challenge of acquiring SOA skills is more than just another skirmish in the larger war for IT talent.

Meanwhile, Democrats suggested that they viewed the skirmish as a chance to show some spine.

The skirmish followed a bombing raid on his remote camp in the south-western province of Cauca.

And we can't see that quest for good jobs as an internal skirmish between warring political ideologies. It's an international war.

The vessel was wounded in the skirmish, and Anakin nursed the Jabitha to the outpost world of Seline, but it was too late.

It is here that the most vicious and least public skirmish between banks and their regulators is taking place.

The skirmish prompted President Lee Myung-bak to replace his defense minister on Friday.

North Korea showed its toughness through the skirmish.

Turn your guns on them immediately; you can finish off the Holoboard after the skirmish.

The biggest skirmish may be with teachers, or, more precisely, with their unions.

Of course, the oil companies used a skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices.

The North Korean ship was seriously damaged in the skirmish while the South Korean ship was unscathed, a Joint Chiefs of Staff officer said.

The main body of horsemen , Marcach are used by Gaels to skirmish and run down routers, or charge a weak enemy position.

Any military skirmish could have a devastating impact on Sino-South Korean relations.

China has occupied the Paracel Islands, disputed with Vietnam, since a bloody skirmish in 1974.

The scouting parties met in a skirmish.

They are vulnerable when attacked by heavy cavalry and skirmish troops.

Chechnya was thus a factor in the first big skirmish of another of Mr Putin'scampaigns, against media freedom.

And utterly untapped, in this little skirmish of ours.

Guerrilla based the skirmish AI in Killzone 2 on the real-time strategy model, building two levels of AI on each individual bot.

This skirmish sparked a major battle.

You play like a lame camel. I am the skirmish master.

Well I remember the day! once save my life in a skirmish;

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