Somebody once said that few plans survive contact with the enemy.

Traditional music which has best survived European contact can be found in the east and northeast of the island.

No battle plan, however, he reminded himself, survives first contact with the enemy.

"No order of battle ever survives first contact with the enemy."

But no occupation plan, it seems, survives contact with victory.

Too bad it's really true that no plan survives contact with the enemy!

"No plan survives contact with the enemy" or the disaster as the case may be.

But Rifat's values don't survive contact with the world at large.

"Yet another plan that did not survive contact with the enemy," she said.

Iraq's battle plan, like so many in the past, may not survive contact with the enemy.