(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(3) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(4) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(5) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(6) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(7) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(8) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(9) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.
(10) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(11) Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
(12) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(13) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
(14) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(15) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
(16) Ernst had adopted conservative positions during the primary battle: she called the president a dictator and said the Environmental Protection Agency should be abolished.
(17) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(18) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(19) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(20) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Vie
Definition:
(v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
(v. i.) To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
(v. t.) To stake; to wager.
(v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
(n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.
Example Sentences:
(1) of methotrexate (MTX) methasquin (MQ), aminopterin, and N-([2,4-diamino-5-chloro-6-quinazolinyl) methyl]-amino)benzol)-L-glutamate (5-Cl-deaza-AM), total accumulation in small intestine was vie- to eight-fold greater than the dihydrofolate reductase content.
(2) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(3) In 2011, the Republican frontrunner was, briefly, Herman Cain, a pizza magnate who took his tax plan from a computer game and quoted a song from the Pokemon mo vie in his speeches.
(4) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
(5) Like Strictly Come Dancing, the bottom two contestants each week will vie to stay in the show, this time in a "vault off".
(6) These simulations permit us to follow the sequence of events accompanying haemodilution, and to assess the qualities of a plasmatic substitute: oncotic strength, demi-vie, effect on the extravascular mobilisation of proteins.
(7) I still believe that among the conflicting voices that vie for Saif's tortured soul there is the voice of a genuine democrat and a Libyan patriot.
(8) American networks vied fiercely for Fox's new show and it is difficult to walk for more than two blocks in New York without seeing a giant advert for the 22-episode series.
(9) But a Chinese newspaper has accused the character of political subversion, claiming that his presence at a recent exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu was part of a plot to portray Japan in a kinder light as the two east Asian rivals vie over wartime history and territories in the East China Sea .
(10) The party has vied with the Liberal Democrats to dominate the pensions debate.
(11) Since then, his supporters and opponents have vied for power, sometimes violently.
(12) It's not a radical idea, and it's gained some pace recently as the big banks vie for the chance to see what alienates customers the most, between not being able to run a website, not being able see a market without wanting to rig it, not being able to take responsibility for anything and simply not giving a toss.
(13) Well, Man of Steel succeeded for the most part because it vied to present a world as close as possible to reality, one in which Superman suddenly arrived to shock the planet with his very existence.
(14) He always understood wine as a drinker rather than an academic, however, and to prove the point the labels on the kitchen pillar are pasted haphazardly, as if each has been slapped on at the end of a long and tremendous evening: a Château Latour 1963 overlaps a La Tâche 1954, a Château Margaux 1934 vies for space with a Mouton Rothschild 1878.
(15) Barbara Juokwewycz, spokeswoman for La Vie Active, said they had been processing 50 people a day since last Monday.
(17) The speed of US disengagement will depend to a large extent on whether the alternative is a vacuum and instability, as a variety of religious and tribal forces vie to inherit the Gulf kingdoms.
(18) In 1983 an important new forum for bioethical discussion in France was created, with the establishment of the Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (C.C.N.E.).
(19) On a stage in a country town square, the accordion band struck up Edith Piaf's bitter-sweet love song, La Vie en Rose .
(20) Let's have a reality-TV contest in which top materials-science researchers vie to invent a more efficient kind of solar cell in order to combat global warming, while also having to rehearse and perform an entire postmodern circus in skimpy costumes.