Sentence examples for fight measures from inspiring English sources

And for just as long, he has devoted himself to protecting gun rights in New York State, joining a grass-roots organization in 1966 to fight measures proposed in the wake of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and fighting gun control laws ever since.

Once again, we had to take to the streets and corridors of power to fight measures to restrict free media.

Bishops in Canada on Tuesday said they would fight measures by Canada's government to expand the definition of marriage.

The agricultural biotechnology industry has put up $525,000 to fight Measure H. Proponents have raised $80,000.

A24 Religious Groups Fight Measure Churches, social service agencies and immigration groups across the country are rallying against a provision in the recently passed House border-security bill that makes it a federal crime to offer services or assistance to illegal immigrants.

But homeowners in those two states have fought measures that would reduce storm damage.

"In the absence of the city manager, it would have been very difficult to change the city's steps," said Dave Needle of Protect the Point, which fought Measure B. "She had access; we didn't".

In the last few years, people have started to fight for measures that will at least reduce the visual blight.

The one at issue was levied by a California local and was used to fight ballot measures there in 2005.

To fight both measures, radicals like Samuel Adams hit on the idea that Parliament's laws were invalid if they were "unconstitutional," then a relatively new word.

Republicans have promised to fight such measures in the courts, a process that could take up much of the remaining year that Obama has in office.