Sentence examples for authorities battles from inspiring English sources

In Argentina, the authorities' battles with a small number of "investors" (so-called vulture funds) jeopardised an entire debt restructuring agreed to – voluntarily – by an overwhelming majority of the country's creditors.

Last Monday, the animosity between the two politicians finally turned morbid when the authorities battled anti-Ravalomanana demonstrators.

Speaking at Saturday's awards ceremony, director Eugene Jarecki labelled authorities' battle against the drug trade "tragically immoral and so heartbreakingly wrong and misguided".

Bank regulators should follow the lead of the health authorities battling obesity rates among our population, he said, adding that he favored "an international accord that would break up these institutions into more manageable size".

RED is the colour on Hungarians' minds today, as authorities battle to stop a torrent of toxic chemical sludge that has escaped from an alumina plant and already claimed four lives.

The earthquake – Nepal's worst in more than 80 years – has left thousands sleeping in the open while authorities battle against time to rescue anyone still alive beneath the rubble.

It was the latest in a spate of bombings that have rocked Turkey in recent months as the authorities battle to contain the fallout from the civil war in neighbouring Syria and an escalating insurgency by Kurdish separatist guerrillas.

The case, which attracted massive media attention, is perhaps Sweden's best-known incidence of online abuse and harassment – and a rare example of successful prosecution by police and judicial authorities battling, campaigners say, inadequate legislation and technology they do not fully understand.

But now that half the authorities' battle has been won, it's fair to assume that their demands are not going to be heard any time soon.

DAKAR/GENEVA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - In the first days of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, as aid workers and health authorities battled to contain the deadly virus, Mariano Lugli asked himself a simple question: where was the World Health Organization?

This fear led, among many other actions, to people seeking solace in superstitious beliefs (whether traditional, Christian, or Muslim); to health workers quitting their posts; to panic-stricken patients fleeing their hospital beds; and, on at least one occasion, to official authorities battling with each other to avoid picking up a suspected Ebola corpse.