Sentence examples for fight was waged from inspiring English sources

The best directors of romantic comedy in the nineteen-thirties and forties—Frank Capra, Gregory La Cava, Leo McCarey, Howard Hawks, Mitchell Leisen, and Preston Sturges knew that the story would be not only funnier but much more romantic if the fight was waged between equals.

Not only have shares of his firm dipped, but a vicious proxy fight was waged in the summer to wrest away his control of the firm.

That kind of fight is waged by the logic of a dictatorship: the spoils go to whoever can muster a greater threat.

But to laugh off the image, to treat it as a curiosity, would be to disregard a serious fight being waged in Israel over the representation of women in the public sphere.

There's currently a fight being waged by protesters in the city to take the monuments down.

Military officials here seem understandably reluctant to weigh in on the political fight being waged over Futenma, and dispute the idea that moving its operations north to Henoko is unpopular among Okinawans.

Once conventions were battlefields where real fights were waged over platforms, personalities and power.

Yet his biggest fights were waged against racial hatred and poverty, and he helped awaken all Americans to the cause of the cities.

Since the fall of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the leftist coalition that has governed the country has largely stayed out of the heated ideological fights being waged across the region, adhering to pragmatic policies that borrowed ideas from both sides of the political spectrum.

Poor cost-benefit analysis has helped lay the groundwork in the past for successful legal challenges to SEC rules, although in all of those cases the fights were waged by industry and business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

What we get for the most part from Mr. Brands is an earnest but plodding inventory of Franklin's eclectic interests and achievements along with lots of sketchy, panoramic descriptions of the historical backdrop (in America, England and France) against which the colonies' fight for independence was waged.