Sentence examples for battleground for control from inspiring English sources

After Democrats swept in last year's state races, Virginia has become a key battleground for control of the House.

And in what is clearly an emerging struggle within Hamas between political pragmatists, trying to consolidate their new authority, and extremists who have begun pressing a more fundamentalist agenda, culture is a central battleground for control of Gaza.

PAGE 12 Banks Agree to Swap Assets J. P. Morgan Chase agreed to trade its corporate trust unit for most of Bank of New York's metropolitan area branches in a $3.1 billion deal, underscoring how the region has become a battleground for control over customer deposits.

Florida House Republicans: Florida will also be a battleground for control of the House, and ground zero is the Miami-area district, Florida's 27th, that went for Hillary Clinton by 20 points but has been held by longtime Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R).

BBC Monitoring's Mike Linstead explains how social media sites are becoming the new battleground for control of news and information as pro-government and anti-government activists use the internet to get their side of the conflict across.

The sudden decision, which appeared to catch both sides off guard, is all but certain to become campaign fodder in the midterm election, particularly in the conservative states that are the battleground for control of the Senate.

Greek Catholics have seized churches taken away by Soviet commissars, turning many villages into battlegrounds for control of church property.

"The edge of parks have become battlegrounds for control of resources," Brashares says.

The salvos of attack ads and cries of foul reverberate daily here in the Sixth Congressional District, one of the battleground contests for control of the House, where an armada of outside special-interest groups are outspending the candidates themselves in the most expensive Congressional race in state history.

But the president has stepped onto what many regard as the next battleground for gun control.

Virginia is a key battleground for gun-control organizations trying to compete with those who favor gun rights.