Sentence examples for are fought over from inspiring English sources

Gone is Leakey's magic wand, replaced by dwindling research grants and jobs, which are fought over by a growing pool of underemployed Ph.D.'s.

Hollywood is a world of power, in which lots of money and the light of fame are fought over by tough and practical people.

In a world where movie studios, record labels and television networks are fought over like so many poker chips, Mr. Semel simply doesn't want to play that game.

Those efforts are amplified by the country's coarse political discourse, where everyone has a soapbox to advance theories — buttressed by the truth, or not, in the case of the so-called birther movement, which argues that President Obama is not a United States-born citizen — and facts are fought over as much as ideas.

Cheadle revealed that one of the touchstones of the movie was Thomas Berger's tall tale of the Battle of Little Big Horn, Little Big Man, and that he also drew some inspiration from the hard-boiled classic The Maltese Falcon, with Davis's studio sessions, which are fought over by the musician and his record label and his wife Frances Taylor, representing the coveted object.

Lots of really important and still hotly contested issues about what it means to be a citizen, what it means to have rights, what kind of rights are guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States or the federal government, and who's in the best position to enforce these rights are fought over, literally and figuratively, in the Reconstruction period.

The holy city has been fought over for centuries and is being fought over still.

But wars have been fought over less.

Again, every step will be fought over in the courts.

The debate over the billboards might be new, but it's being fought over familiar ground.

Hilfiger is being fought over by a hedge fund and a private-equity group.