Sentence examples for Mount a battle from inspiring English sources

While liberal groups are preparing to mount a battle, it is a fact of life in Washington that the clubby members of the Senate rarely reject the nomination of one of their own.

Mr. Fishman, who heads the apartment workers' union, plans to seize on the wage increases, pension gains and computer training promised by the contract to mount a battle aimed at persuading tens of thousands of nonunion workers in New York's suburbs to join his union.

Until then their only real encounter was on the Senate floor when Mr. Feingold mounted a battle against a costly nuclear aircraft carrier.

With all those options, magazines seem to be mounting a battle against television bellicose enough for that male TV favorite, "W.W.F.

Napoleon was a lifelong obsession and Kubrick intended to cover the entire sweep of his life, with full-scale reconstructions of his battles, requiring some 50,000 extras (Kubrick often noted the similarities between filmmaking and mounting a battle campaign).

It may be the last place that his loyalists could mount a fierce battle against allied forces, a concern among American officials.

He said that several British publishers rejected the project because of fears that Mr. Fayed might mount a court battle against it.

Two activist hedge funds that had been preparing to mount a proxy battle with The New York Times Company were declaring victory Monday, when the newspaper publisher agreed to support two of their rival board nominees at next month's annual meeting.

The letter is the company's most extensive statement to investors since Mr. Wyly announced on June 21 that he would mount a proxy battle to take control of the company's board and remove its management at a shareholder meeting on Aug. 29.

It is unfortunate that the law allows one parent to take such a position, causing significant emotional distress to the child and the other parent, not to mention the expense of having to mount a legal battle in order to obtain formal parentage rights that a married father would never have to incur.

Inside Aleppo, anger had been mounting over a battle some Syrians believe is in the service of foreign agendas, and whose only tangible result seemed to be more rebel wounded and dead.