But unlike earlier skirmishes between baseball and Congress, this one has not yet included serious threats of punishment from lawmakers.

It still showed the effects of the earlier skirmish, but he could see immediately that most functions had been restored.

But winning early skirmishes and winning the war are two different matters.

Her father was long dead, killed in an early skirmish, but the chairman had prospered.

He hadn't had to, though, and they'd been stupid enough to get killed in the early skirmishes over Soulend.

The assault and the earlier skirmishes had left the allies with some 4,800 casualties.

On the law's side, a dozen police had been wounded in the early skirmishes.

We lost one in the earlier skirmishes with the Lanachronans.

He thought that, this time, Kam might even avoid the sequel to each of the earlier skirmishes.

"Is the situation more serious than your reports of earlier skirmishes over field boundaries?"