battlefield

• “Isolating the battlefield is a cardinal rule of warfare.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Pakistan Paradox

• “But for the residents of Mrs. Payne's boarding house, the battlefield is the supper table, and the enemy is the resident of the room next door.”

  The Ken Burns Effect: World War II Classics for Veterans Day

• “There will always be some difficult border cases, but generally temporal and spatial proximity to the battlefield is a good basis for deciding the bin into which the person initially lands.”

  Balkinization

• “The Americans have established a fund to pay for what they describe as battlefield damage to those whose homes were destroyed during the operations.”

  Garmsir Returnees Angered at Devastation

• “But on the opposite end of the battlefield is an opponent familiar to and even respected by evangelicals: Christian cable stations.”

  June 2006

• “They're trying to spread what I call the battlefield around so that they have more than enough electoral votes come Tuesday night when the polls close across the country.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008

• “But I'm just saying, the battlefield is a big, big place ... bordered on several sides by suburbs and train tracks.”

  Friday freewheeling wackiness and whatnot

• “It is this anti-tank plane that is devastating and it's involved in what they call battlefield preparations.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003

• “We ought to be able to interrogate them to gain battlefield knowledge without worrying about a court case.”

  Matthew Yglesias » A Telling Slip on Detainees

• “The use of drones by the military on the conventional battlefield is not really very controversial, not at bottom — it is just another standoff firing platform.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » House Subcommittee Hearing on Drone Warfare

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