| The eight-year war of attrition which followed cost thousands of lives on both sides. |
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| Sounds like we're in for a war of attrition, minus the trenches and the mustard gas. |
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| He planned on this kind of war of attrition from the minute he knew he was militarily finished. |
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| They have no education, no job and are prepared to sacrifice their lives in a war of attrition against the US military machine. |
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| They will also seek to engage the New Zealand front five in a war of attrition. |
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| The midfield sector at this stage of the game resembled a war of attrition with neither side gaining a stronghold. |
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| I have put myself through a war of attrition, willing the other side to win. |
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| The Francoists took control of Spain through a comprehensive and methodical war of attrition. |
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| The Congregational establishment had given birth to a radical, antidoctrinal movement, and it seemed locked in a fruitless war of attrition. |
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| Another heavy struggle for the clock, with one team finally imposing its will in a war of attrition, minus the stand-to and the morning hate? |
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| In the wake of the tsunami that claimed over 250,000 lives in Aceh, the military has continued its war of attrition. |
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| Neglected and drab, this once-grand Regency mansion had been the battlefield for a war of attrition between John's mother and father. |
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| We have witnessed, somewhat with dismay, the war of attrition that's been waged by Air Canada management against Canadian Airlines. |
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| It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition. |
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| The past two months have been a war of attrition between the Hong Kong government and pro-democracy protestors. |
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| A war of attrition could also be waged against the Force, the people, the foreign oil experts and the oil installations. |
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| This is one war of attrition where Detroit is clearly outgunned. |
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| Experts believed this would be a war of attrition, a long, exhausting conflict that could last at least three years. |
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| It is impossible, with the best of wills to conduct free and fair elections under occupation with a war of attrition taking place between rebels and occupiers. |
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| Assuming the anti-terrorism will comprise a war of attrition, we must somehow attempt to avoid impatience. |
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| In the absence of federal legislation, a dispute turns into a war of attrition where the most powerful wins. |
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| The communities will wage a war of attrition, and at moments of government weakness destroy or reoccupy the parks. |
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| Any possibility of an interlocutory appeal encourages delay, obstruction, and a war of attrition. |
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| This will be a war of attrition and a pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself. |
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| So at a national level, the campaign would be a defensive war of attrition. |
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| The dancers of the Japanese group Leni-Basso went a step further here, and waged a genuine war of attrition with their bodies, in a cutting and hypnotising multimedia production entitled Finks. |
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| He burned his boats and supplies to show resolve in continuing operations, but the Sassanids began a war of attrition by burning crops. |
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| As players become more skilled and, in particular, better able to retrieve shots, points often become a war of attrition. |
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| German Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn decided to break away from the Schlieffen Plan and instead focus on a war of attrition against France. |
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| As much as the Prime Minister would like to wage a war of attrition and decide that whatever he writes is law, he must come to the realization that he is working within the confines of a minority Parliament. |
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| The raids disturbed civilians, and continued the war of attrition against Fighter Command. |
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| Greene evaded combat with Cornwallis, instead wearing his army down through a protracted war of attrition. |
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| We know there is a war of attrition going on right now. |
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| In order to avoid an endless war of attrition, organisations must protect their existing knowledge, ensuring the easy, continuous use of historical data. |
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| It is disturbing that the first respondent has relied on technical points which have no merit and instead of complying with its obligations have waged a war of attrition in the court. |
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| The more radical elements of the FIS are now engaged in an underground war of attrition against the Algerian authorities whom it regards, not without some cause, as illegal and unconstitutional. |
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| A lengthy war of attrition, conducted on his behalf by his younger brother Ferdinand, continued for the rest of Charles's reign. |
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| The FA Cup Final became a grindingly familiar war of attrition. |
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| The two paired up together to land the most prestigious prize in steeplechasing, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, two years ago with War Of Attrition for Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary. |
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