Have I come here once more to meet a fiend in mortal combat?
"All the language has been hijacked by people we're in mortal combat against," he said.
Yet here were the two Residents locked in mortal combat.
The old and new definitions are so opposed as to be in mortal combat.
They seemed eternally on the point of mortal combat with each other.
And he was talking about ordinary civil litigation, not mortal combat with the government.
They wage mortal combat on all others of the species from outside the colony.
Maybe they were locked somewhere in mortal combat or something.
He'd lost the eye, long ago, in mortal combat beneath the earth.
But otherwise, if these people want mortal combat let's give them just that.
They are involved in a life-and-death struggle to determine the future of their nation.
The two men began to wrestle in a life-and-death struggle.
Her father was out of practice for such life-and-death struggles.
The general had expected, within seconds of the assault, to be in a life-and-death struggle.
They had no way of knowing a life-and-death struggle was taking place just off shore.
This can mean the difference between success and failure in a life-and-death struggle.
There shall no longer be a life-and-death struggle for food and shelter.
And thus the mass of the people were always in a life-and-death struggle with poverty.
On another level, they were engaged in a life-and-death struggle.
The living room showed few signs of a life-and-death struggle.