Sentence examples for authorities fight from inspiring English sources

One thousand military personnel were dispatched there while 600 were sent to South Sumatra province to help local authorities fight fires, Indonesia's disaster agency said.

The authorities' fight against organised crime took another step forward on Thursday when the national police agency unveiled a new bill enabling officers to step up surveillance of the most violent gangs and take pre-emptive measures if necessary.

The authorities fought back.

The man, whose name was not released by the authorities, fought with first responders, trying to stop them as they tried to battle the blaze, the police said.

Local authorities fought protesters with batons and pepper spray, injuring hundreds, and detained a handful of activists for urging people to join the protests in online posts.

Two days after the largest antigovernment protest in Iran in more than a year, supporters and opponents of the authorities fought Wednesday in a battle for the memory of a slain protester, state media and an opposition Web site reported.

Before the September attacks, the seaport industry's principal lobby, the American Association of Port Authorities, fought the legislation, arguing that it would impose one-size-fits-all security systems for all seaports.

Despite Alvarez bringing murder charges against Van Dyke, she angered protesters by waiting more than a year to act while city authorities fought to prevent the release of the dashcam recording to the public.

He notes that Catholic authorities fought or tried to ignore several of these axial changes in the past -- the scientific revolution, for instance, or the democratic revolution -- and after incurring severe costs, had to catch up with what they had spent immense amounts of misguided energies denying.

But the commune did not enable him to escape prosecution and became a battleground where he and the authorities fought it out.In 1977, his smash hit "Zombie", in which he used the phrase "Zombie no go walk unless you tell am to walk" to describe the brutal methods of Nigeria's military with the cutting lyrics, led to a vicious attack on the Kalakuta Commune in the same year.

It is worth remembering that the Egyptian authorities fought a long, existential campaign to defeat a violent jihadist campaign to overthrow the government.