Sentence examples for attend a fight from inspiring English sources

Tourists who attend a fight out of curiosity are often horrified to witness the violent, bloody reality of this archaic pastime.

Some states even punish possession of a fighting dog or attending a fight.

Mr. Dauman, ranked as the nation's highest-paid C.E.O. in 2011 and known for his custom-tailored clothes and Hermès cuff links, has not yet attended a fight.

The members of the dogfighting ring were careful about who attended a fight, often limiting each side to 10 guests and quizzing people about who they were, who they knew.

This benign neglect is surprising because as recently as 1825, in the case of Rex v. Billingham, Savage and Skinner, it had been deemed that anyone even attending a fight was guilty of an offence.

They were in Mexico to attend a prize fight.

If only they could attend a live fight on their own turf.

He had come to my hometown to attend a Leon Spinks fight and to promote a business deal with Sprint that benefited the Muhammad Ali Foundation.

A new HuffPost/YouGov poll found that 74percentt of Americans support the law making it a crime to attend an animal fight, including a dog fight or a cockfight.

The farm bill that President Barack Obama signed this month contains a provision -- called "Cock-A-Doodle-Don't" by the magazine Modern Farmer and the "Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act" by the rather stodgier Congress -- making it a federal crime to attend an animal fight.

UPDATE: 5 20 p.m. -- Chris Shigas, a spokesman for Vick, told HuffPost in an email that he thinks Vick has already raised plenty of awareness for animal welfare, in part by campaigning for legislation to make it a federal crime to attend an animal fight.