Robert climbed off the bed, looking like he'd won a small battle.

The season is lost, but there are smaller battles to win.

I just stay up later than most to try to win the small battles.

Has the younger brother won the small battle against the older?

But it was really only a very small battle which did not affect the course of the war.

The closer we get to there, the more she will assume I am looking past a small battle toward the final one.

I just lost two small battles, but I'm prepared to win the war.

The area around Florida was the scene of two small battles during the conflict.

These small battles are in fact the beginning of a civil society, she said.

Many battles big and small had been fought since, yet it was still here.