Sentence examples for fight raged from inspiring English sources

The Taliban dug in, holding Mr. Wardak's relatives captive as the fight raged through the night, Afghan officials said.

The fight raged fiercely all day, but when night fell the Swedes had won an important victory.

They locked themselves in the washroom and cowered there while the fight raged in the front courtyard.

Even so, the public's attitudes on this question have changed significantly since the fight raged through the first year of Clinton administration.

With fists and belt buckles, the fight raged through the halls and stairways of the insti tution before it was finally broken up on the first floor by museum guards and the police.

As a street fight raged downtown, early reports from the second phase of the three-part election for the lower house of Parliament confirmed the trend: the Muslim Brotherhood's moderate Islamist party led the voting, followed by the ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafis and then the Egyptian Bloc, an alliance of liberal and leftist parties.

BAGHDAD — On what he described as probably his final visit to Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday turned from eight years of war here to the fight raging at home.

All but one of the bills in Congress now contain a public option, but none of them is the same and there is a fight raging over whether any public option should be in the final legislation.

As Ankara blocked Turkish Kurds from crossing into Syria to fight, rage here boiled over and 30 people were killed in Kurdish protests.

Fighting raged throughout the country on Tuesday.

Fighting raged throughout the day on Thursday.