Sentence examples for fight state from inspiring English sources

"I feel like I'm in 1906, fighting the fights that people who came long before me had to fight," state Sen. Lena Taylor (D), who is African-American, said on the floor of the legislature, according to the paper.

He said that he and Mr. Klein should be working together to fight state cutbacks in aid.

A couple of parties that broke with it to fight state elections on their own are now rejoining, or trying to.

The Branford lawyer who found a newborn baby girl abandoned on the doorstep of his home last weekend has decided not to fight state law to adopt her.

"Prisoner of the Mountains" confers legendary stature on all the Russian mothers who went to Chechnya to rescue their sons, and by extension on all midlife women who fight state power.

The rebels model their approach after Peru's murderous Shining Path guerrilla movement: voice the aspirations of the poor, fight state oppression and police brutality, use violence as a means to justice.

And there are ways to fight state-sanctioned subversion and terrorism.

With the Republican candidates vowing to stay in the race until the convention, it's shaping up to be a long fight, state-by-state, for the nomination.

He has also said that Britain cannot specialise in counter-insurgency warfare alone, but must be ready to fight state-on-state wars that necessarily require high-end equipment.The views of Portsmouth voters could crystallise after the second of the leaders' debates, due to take place as The Economist went to press.

Industry sources said many newspaper owners would continue to fight state-backed regulation if Impress is recognised, both through legal challenges and by trying to convince the government not to impose legislation that would force those who do not join to pay the costs of both sides in libel cases even if they win.

Opponents of same-sex marriage will try to fight state-by-state and argue that the issue should be settled locally, not nationally.