Sentence examples for a fierce struggle between from inspiring English sources

The period thus saw a fierce struggle between the Marathas and the Afghans for control over Delhi and northern India.

In the next few months there will be a fierce struggle between Law and Justice and Civic Platform for the hearts and minds of Poles.

His government saw a fierce struggle between reformists, led by Manuel Fraga and the new foreign minister, José Maria de Areilza, who wished to "open" the regime by limited democratization from above, and the "bunker" mentality of nostalgic Francoists.

Federal prosecutors had wanted the jury to hear the tapes, which appear to record the sound of a fierce struggle between the hijackers and a group of passengers who stormed the cockpit.

NEW YORK — Behind two days of talks at the United Nations and a unanimously adopted 13-page document about the need to fight noncommunicable diseases around the world is a fierce struggle between commercial and health interests that has only just begun.

On hilltops within sight of frontier outposts like this one, black-clad Islamic State fighters have been battling for the last week with Kurdish militants defending Kobani, a besieged Kurdish area that has become the prize in a fierce struggle between Syria's embattled Kurds and the rampaging Islamic State militants.

The outraged reaction to the killing of Bayaman Erkinbaev, a prominent member of parliament and leading businessman, on September 21st the second assassination of an MP since the revolution has exposed a fierce struggle for dominance between the executive and the legislature.

When Fyodor died childless in 1682, a fierce struggle for power ensued between the Miloslavskys and the Naryshkins: the former wanted to put Fyodor's brother, the delicate and feebleminded Ivan V, on the throne; the Naryshkins stood for the healthy and intelligent Peter.

Soon the two sides were locked in a fierce struggle for the corridors into Manchuria, although negotiations were under way in Chongqing between Mao Zedong and Chiang for a peaceful settlement.

By the mid-1970s, however, the blossoming human rights movement in the United States posed a serious threat to the maintenance of close U.S. ties to anticommunist, right-wing military regimes.The competition between cold warriors and human rights advocates culminated in a fierce struggle to define U.S. policy during the Jimmy Carter presidency.

He foresaw a fierce struggle just ahead.