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  • I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

    War   Blessed   Islamic  
  • You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

    Army   Sushi   Cleaning  
    "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.
  • Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

    Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

    "Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: ‘I Think Women’s Bodies Are A Battleground’" by Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2014.
  • The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

    Golf   Men   Sea  
    Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing
  • Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out

    Our World   Odds   Doors  
  • The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.

    Needs   Want   Internet  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

    Military   Party   Dirty  
    Source: rooseveltinstitute.org
  • I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

    "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
  • I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. The topless Interview shoot was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. I think women's bodies are a battleground, and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

    "Is Keira Knightley's topless photoshoot the best form of protest?" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2014.
  • Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

    Character   Self   Years  
  • The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

    War   Allies   Pakistan  
    "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.
  • To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

    Fighting   Men   Rivers  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.202, Best Books on
  • On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  • Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he promises to defend the inn with 'all the strength in his body.' I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue. I don't think he got it.

  • The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

    War   Keys   Mind  
  • American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

    "This World: Playground or Battleground?". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1989.
  • Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

    Movie   Football   Games  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

    Mad   Details   Able  
    Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan
  • Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

  • The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

    Land   Southern   Rising  
    Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.
  • A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

    Hate   Violence   Action  
    "Director's Cut", www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.
  • North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Film is a battleground.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

  • The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

    Prayer   Fate   Solitude  
    Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing
  • I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

    Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin
  • Guerrilla marketing requires you to comprehend every facet of marketing, experiment with many of them, winnow out the losers, double up on the winners, and then use the marketing tactics that prove themselves to you in the battleground of real life.

    Real   Marketing   Use  
    Jay Conrad Levinson (2007). “Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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