Sentence examples for been fought over from inspiring English sources

The checkpoint had been fought over by rival Libyan militias three nights before.

Some borderlands have been fought over for hundreds of years and changed hands dozens of times.

And the cherry has quite literally been fought over by the Mini BoTDs.

The region corresponding to modern Herāt province has been fought over by many foreign conquerors throughout history.

The rules have been fought over since just after President Bush took office, and have been widely anticipated for months.

By that time the city had been fought over by Babylonians, Israelites, Jews, Philistines, Jebusites, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Macedonians, Maccabees, Romans and Herod and his descendants.

Within the BBC, the politics of inform, educate and entertain have been fought over, the Reithian inheritance ferociously debated and subjected to widely differing interpretations.

With its snow-draped mountains, green valleys and shimmering lakes, Kashmir is a jewel that has been fought over for many centuries.

Entire "-gates" – Rosen-gate and dog-gate, for example – have erupted, been fought over and then forgotten in mere days, and each poll is scrutinized to see how the latest controversy has affected the race.

For countries whose borders had been fought over just 40 years earlier, this was a bold step, but one fundamentally concerned with scrapping internal barriers between nations that enjoyed strong economic and geographical similarities.

The holy city has been fought over for centuries and is being fought over still.