Sentence examples for a local struggle from inspiring English sources

But Godane seems to be trying to plug a local struggle into a global ideology.

It was a first salvo in a local struggle for the stones and, perhaps, the souls of the Russians living here.

To a man, they proclaim their differences from al-Qaeda, insisting that from the first they have waged a local struggle against a tyrannical ruler, not a global struggle targeting the West.

"The teachers' union here saw this as a local struggle within a larger national battle of what a lot of teachers call the privatization of schools," said Robert Bruno, a professor of labor relations at the University of Illinois.

In a report from Saigon, dated 6 May 1965, that helped to influence the attitude of Harold Wilson's Labour government as well as the Guardian editor's, Hollingworth wrote: "Today, in spite of American bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the danger of the local struggle becoming a major war, there is a military stalemate … this stalemate could continue indefinitely".

He's been following the local struggle to get a methadone clinic opened in Gray, Tennessee, not too far from his house.

They said, though, that an Afghan might have supplied the faulty intelligence in order to use the Americans to settle a score or to win some advantage in a local power struggle.

Jim Strickland, a Vietnam-era veteran who runs a blog called VAWatchdogtoday.org, said that he had not heard of similar problems at other national cemeteries and that the fight in Houston boiled down to a local power struggle over funeral rituals.

Despite claiming Islamic credentials, and reports (which he has denied) that he once fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan, Bangla Bhai seems more like a gangster, engaged in a local power struggle.Foreign diplomats say outfits like Bangla Bhai's do have links to international Islamic groups, but that they are not extensive.

Though it involves the sectarian clash of Shiite and Sunni Muslims, it is in many ways a local power struggle.

Two factors are harming efforts to stabilize Mali: the local struggle for power and AQIM's determination to harass not only French soldiers, but any other outside presence.