Sentence examples for battle the local from inspiring English sources

This is a familiar battle, the local guy struggling against the behemoths from out of town.

He constantly battled the local government to keep the public off his beach.

Yemen, aided by the United States, has been battling the local branch of Al Qaeda.

Consequently, Mr. Fenty was not just battling the local teachers' union during his re-election campaign.

In August, they forced him to move the four people who were living there to another shelter he has in nearby Brockway — where he has also battled the local government over its use.

Since then, Calatrava, who has officially been nominated the city's favorite son, has been battling the local government, charging it with paying insufficient attention to his warnings that the landscaping upon which it was insisting would cause runoff into his masterpiece.

"I hope the Vatican seriously starts to question what these bishops are doing," said Patricia Scheade-Singletof, head of a group called Endangered Catholics, which has been battling the local closings.

The second big moment is the harvest social when the brothers, brandishing their choppers, do battle with the local townsfolk and execute astonishingly acrobatic leaps, spins and twirls.

The officials added that they had little enthusiasm for a battle with the local community over an expensive West Side stadium.

Simon Crump and Calvin Payne are two of five people to have been arrested in the long-running battle over the local authority's tree-felling programme.

Last month, Coca-Cola abandoned a project to build a bottling plant in India after a battle from the local community over worries about depleting groundwater supplies.