How a battle is fought is a matter of tactics: the terms and conditions that it is fought on and whether it should be fought at all is a matter of strategy.

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When the bite finally does come, and the sea-soaked battle rages, we know that it's only a matter of time before the man or the fish gives up.

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It is a matter of probing the limits of the new freedoms, knowing that the battle for a free media still has a long way to go.

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The poet takes as his initial subject matter a little known Cavalier composer, William Lawes, who at his death in the battle of Chester in 1645 was already overshadowed by his brother, Henry.

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