At some point she was forced to work as a female slave due to her father being punished for losing a critical battle.

"We will now return our attention to the critical battles involving appeals court nominees," she said.

Newsweek called Sugar Loaf "the most critical local battle of the war."

In the critical battle for public opinion, he is scrambling to counter the portrait painted by the House ethics committee and its outside counsel.

Finally, he asked, "Do our military leaders have any input on this, on where we fight this critical battle?"

Each of the overlays examined a critical battle of the past six years.

He figured they might as well be comfortable during the critical battle.

Two critical battles with the British were fought at the fort during the War of 1812.

That, surely, is a critical battle lost in what some call the 'war against terrorism'.

This was a critical battle of the match.