用skirmish造句子，“skirmish”造句

An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish.

The North may try to provoke a naval skirmish.

Build towers, research upgrades, and obliterate the enemy in 10 campaign missions and skirmish mode.

The skirmish began at around 2:30 p.m. local time Tuesday when Pyongyang's forces rained artillery shells on Yeonpyeong.

Yesterday's judgment almost certainly marks the final legal skirmish in Basildon council's long-running battle to evict the travellers from Dale Farm.

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

Only 500 diehards are in this fight but the re-enactors are well-drilled and take special care to mimic a small skirmish that took place on the day.

Everybody but Toby enters into this skirmish.

The skirmish grew into a major battle.

A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

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

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

It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish.

During a typical skirmish he observed, Lebanese army soldiers started shooting at some Druze militiamen, who responded by firing on American marines (who were supposed to be keeping the peace).

The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.

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

The tacticians dash from skirmishto skirmish trying to control a crisis, deciding in each case whether taxpayersshould bail out a distressed bank, firm or country.

Perhaps Director Wu's opening remarks had sealed people's mouth, for the factions who have begun the skirmish were temporarily silent, unwilling to reveal their firepower too early. Tr. Rosie a.

We won a skirmish, and we'll win him some more.

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

This skirmish sparked a major battle.

Now all the skirmish fans are looking for maps that have statues in or near victory areas and start areas.

a brief skirmish on the frontier

Suggesting a skirmish might 'put them in their place' the article argued: 'We shouldn't waste the opportunity to launch some tiny-scale battles that could deter provocateurs from going further.

This was a only petty, front-line skirmish.

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