Dozens of armored fighting vehicles packed with supplies appeared headed for the front line of the battle against Islamist fighters.

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The people who were injured are in the front line of that battle and I intend to stand with the people of Derry.

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Karachi is at the "front line of the battle" against terror, she said, but terror and its underlying causes and symptoms extend beyond Pakistan's borders.

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For the next few days, the front line of this battle appears to have been drawn in British pubs, around its dining tables and on the streets of its cities.

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Pauli placed itself on the front line of football's battle with homophobia during a match with Paderborn.

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They find the corpses of three Bosnian Croat soldiers believed to have been killed in a front line battle in 1992.

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Much of the town was shattered in 1993, when the main street was the front line in the battle between government and Unita forces.

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The army, in particular, is overstretched, and the navy is being forced to reduce the battle-readiness of some ships to concentrate men and equipment in those on front-line duty.

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