Skirmishing in a sentence

Charles saw their moves as a takeover attempt, and the board fired Bill, leading to a lawsuit and 18 years of legal skirmishing.

Such tit-for-tat skirmishing risks spiraling out of control as Brussels gets serious about limiting climate change while Washington continues to pull back from its international commitments to contain carbon emissions.

The record-setting early vote — and legal skirmishing over how it will be counted — drew unsupported allegations of fraud from Trump, who refused to guarantee he would honor the election’s result.

After some skirmishing, Placidia and Aetius came to an agreement that established the political landscape of the Western Roman Empire for the next thirty years.

A new Royalist offensive in late 1643 saw skirmishing around Farnham between Waller's forces and Ralph Hopton 's Royalists, but these brief incursions into the western fringes of Surrey marked the limits of Royalist advances on the county.

By 30 March, less than two weeks after the Army's Montmartre rout, it began skirmishing with the National Guard in the outskirts of Paris.

However, it was a time of constant skirmishing in and around the Peloponnese.

Skirmishing and artillery duels continued until dark, but no additional major attacks took place, while the center of the battle moved north to Marye's Heights.

The attack got within convert of the bridge before being stopped; skirmishing continued throughout the night.

The battle was by now almost over with only some remaining skirmishing between Britannia, Orion and the departing Spanish covering Santísima Trinidad (which was to later serve as the Spanish flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar ).

The king failed to arrive to lead the English army and the result was intermittent skirmishing until early 1482.

The light infantry consisted of 1,200 unarmoured skirmishing troops drawn from the youngest and lower social classes.

There was frequent skirmishing between the splitters and anti-splitters until the 1960s.

Thessaly was widely known for producing competent cavalrymen, and later experiences in wars both with and against the Persians taught the Greeks the value of cavalry in skirmishing and pursuit.

This does not mean that its utility should be underestimated, as its strategic role in scouting, skirmishing, and outpost duties was crucial to the Romans' capability to conduct operations over long distances in hostile or unfamiliar territory.

This took the form of border skirmishing and several English campaigns into Scotland.

Unlike the heavily armoured English cavalry, the Scottish cavalry would have been light horsemen who were good for skirmishing and reconnaissance but were not suitable for charging the enemy lines.

When the Knights refused, the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.