The rebels and the government blamed each other for starting a battle at sea on April 16.

You'll start a pitched battle if our troops draw their weapons and I don't want anybody killed.

She knew only that he who had never started or lost a battle against himself, now had no power to leave this room.

I didn't mean to come home and start a battle.

Yet they realized that any attempt to start a battle would mean their instant death.

There were too many innocents on the street to start a battle, even if he had weapons.

In the years that followed, he started a legal battle for a right to assisted death.

Coiren would be less than pleased if he started a battle with the people she was talking to.

When one starts a battle, it sets off an avalanche of activity.

At that instant he could have yanked out his gun and started a battle for safety.