Sentence examples for conversion battle from inspiring English sources

Standard remained tight-lipped about the level of windfalls policyholders might receive but said it was junking its anti-carpetbagging measure, brought in at the height of the conversion battle led by Monaco fund manager Fred Woollard in 2000.

The vulnerability of wooden hulls to armored ships was noted particularly in Britain and France, where the wisdom of the planned conversion of the battle fleet to armor was given a powerful demonstration.

Above all, by botching two field-goal attempts in the final three minutes they loused up the kicking game, which in some precincts is considered the key to winning at football (along with the running game, the passing game, the turnover ratio, the third-down-conversion rate, the battle of wits, the war in the trenches, and the coin toss).

What seems to have brought the Strip to its present impasse — it is practically deserted but for these little evangelical bands of elderly squares and young longhairs, bent on mutual conversion — was an economic battle with, and over, teen-agers; and what apparently drew the teen-agers to the Strip in the first place was a musical development.

New York has plenty of history with the dream of secession, the conversion of cosmopolitanism into a battle flag.

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The four members of its consortium—France's Aérospatiale, Germany's DASA, British Aerospace (BAe) and Spain's CASA have been battling over the conversion of Airbus into a "single corporate entity" that would own the factories where Airbuses are made and assembled.

Fighting for a Place to Call Home : Housing: A 71-year-old apartment tenant is leading a battle against a planned conversion to condominiums.

The authors discuss "seven tipping points that saved the world," including the Battle of Thermopylae, Constantine's conversion to Christianity, and the Battle of Britain.7.

The conversion issue has set off years of battle between non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews since Orthodox rabbis do not recognize the Reform and Conservative movements as Judaism, and thus do not accept conversions performed by their rabbis.

(See: "Biofuels Battle").. "The sugar conversion is flashy, neat science that is doable," says Jeremy Johnson, a chemical engineer and cofounder of Agrivida.