skirmishing

This week's proceedings were only the start of the legal skirmishing; substantive hearings are not expected to begin until September.

It should be explained that two young mice, who were waiting on the others, went skirmishing upstairs to the kitchen between courses.

And once the current skirmishing is over, House Republicans are likely to use any legislative vehicle at hand to continue the attack.

Skirmishing unarmoured Irish warriors armed with javelins and hand weapon, willing to fight for whomever can pay them.

QE2 would be implemented when governments are already skirmishing over currencies.

After months of skirmishing, the allies and the Soviets settled down to a modus vivendi.

AFTER months of inconclusive skirmishing, Washington's budgetary battle-lines are being drawn in earnest.

In the meantime, the skirmishing continued after I had returned to Washington.

They are equipped with spear and light armour, useful for skirmishing, raiding and ambushing tactics or for covering flanks.

Behind the scenes in recent weeks, the skirmishing has grown intense.

Elsewhere the skirmishing has also begun, perhaps all too literally.

War has officially been declared after months of skirmishing.

Yet the skirmishing continues.

Low-level, drought-related skirmishing is especially likely in areas of small-arms proliferation, such as the Horn of Africa;

a military formation for skirmishing;