Sentence examples for combating hard from inspiring English sources

Marijuana is illegal here, but police in south London have decided to stop wasting time on pot smokers and focus their resources on combating hard drugs and violent crimes.

My objection to the play is that using violence and hysteria as a way of combating hard-sell religion and hypocrisy plays into the enemy's hands.

How effective such approaches are when it comes to the welter of social problems that pile in on the Davos crowd as it debates and parties hard — combating poverty and disease, preparing for calamities from contagion to a warming planet — is unanswered.

Know your enemy, because if you do not know what you are up against, you will have a hard time confronting it, a hard time combating it.

George Solomon, another mentor, says combating their environment is hard, and any progress is three steps forward and two back.

The HIV/Aids pandemic has also had severe implications; the disease left 43 million children orphaned in 2003 and made combating child labour even harder.

Thus, ZnO/Ag/TiO2 nanotube composite layers may be promising delivery systems for combating post-operative infections in hard tissue replacement procedures.

European finance ministers flunked hard decisions on combating the debt crisis at a meeting in the Polish city of Wroclaw on September 16th and 17th and instead floated the irrelevant idea of a tax on financial transactions.

She is generally regarded as the most popular royal, and it is difficult to imagine the image-makers who have been hard at work combating the declining popularity of the other family members spinning any better presentation of the queen mother than the one she herself created over 75 years of being in the public eye.

Practice also demonstrates that priority is given everywhere in Europe to combating large-scale trafficking in hard drugs.

They favored alternative ways of combating overcrowding, like making it harder to put people back in prison for technical violations of their parole, and argued that transfers should be a last resort.