It seemed that an economic battle had turned into a battle for America's cultural soul.

Some foreign governments are already maneuvering for what they expect will be an increasingly nasty economic and political battle with Washington.

This is an economic and political battle in a changed world and centered in a diminishing resource.

Well, these rich people won the economic battles.

Armenia also engaged in an economic battle with the Mamluks for control of the spice trade.

It will be an economic battle within economic warfare.

The economic battle for the presidency could go either way.

To me, the economic battle is a cultural legacy that must be fought in the work place as well as on the home front.

It will not be with pessimism that we will win the next economic battles.

But this time in our region defence issues are crucial to the economic battle.