The long war of attrition exhausted the strength of both countries.
He told his supporters: "we conducted a war of attrition against Russia for 10 years until they went bankrupt."
生活裏到處都是這樣悲傷的隱喻。如同曾經我和你在每一個清晨，一起走向那個光線來源的出口。
It was a war of attrition.
The rebels have declared a cease-fire in their war of attrition against the government.
The Republicans are fighting a war of attrition against Barack Obama's health-care reforms and his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.
The war was "the decisive battle between the road of revolution and the road of colonialism", a war of short swift thrusts, blockhouse warfare, war of attrition, "protracted war".
After a war of attrition with friends around us, we could no longer afford to cross the seas and continents with friends far away to maintain a huge communication network.
Unlike other parts of the Japanese economy, the electronics-goods market has consolidated, largely thanks to a war of attrition waged by Yamada Denki.
A great battle broke out in this town and resultedin a war of attrition.
It IS not so much a takeover battle as a war of attrition.
They whittled down the enemy's military and economic strength in a war of attrition.
By focusing on the war of attrition between Miss Suu Kyi and the junta, it is easy to overlook the role of ethnic minorities in opposition politics, says Mr Zawacki.
If we concentrate our forces on a narrow front for a defensive war of attrition, we would be throwing away the advantages of our geography and economic organization and repeating the mistake of Abyssinia.
