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  • noun line of battle
  • noun The area in which one concentrates one's resources on a struggle

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Examples

  • David Cameron yesterday drew an early battleline for the next general election by promising to devise a "British bill of rights" to replace the

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Beastmen-Viking ambushers close in on the undead battleline... from behind!

    GAMING NEWS: "Storming The Beaches of Norse-mandy" MaksimSmelchak 2007

  • It all came down to who got initiative and decided which battle was resolved first in the center of the battleline.

    Camp Cromwell 19/06/07 Cromwell MkI 2007

  • A battleline between classes was objectively being drawn by the workers – and regardless of subsequent historians' distortions, this is how the "eight-hour movement" came to be viewed by all sides.

    The History of May Day Abhay N 2007

  • It all came down to who got initiative and decided which battle was resolved first in the center of the battleline.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Cromwell MkI 2007

  • There is no single battleline which you can plot each day on a chart.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • There is no single battleline which you can plot each day on a chart.

    Bush followers distort history to justify their radical changes Glenn Greenwald 2006

  • When I visited it thirty years ago, the Mississippi River had already carved away 800 yards of the battleline.

    do you know what it means Holly 2005

  • Then shouting began behind them; their pursuers pulled up, looked back-and began belatedly to return to their battleline.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • But she was living on our side of the battleline, unaware of what she was.

    Shadows Linger Cook, Glen 1984

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