Sentence examples for fighting powerful from inspiring English sources

His story of fighting powerful energy companies might be enough to gain him a national audience.

In the old days, a pipsqueak like Mr. David wouldn't stand a chance fighting powerful and sophisticated adversaries like Gabriel Resources and its minority partner, the Romanian government.

Orbán's government has taken a nativist line on immigration, portraying itself as fighting powerful and "shadowy" pro-migration forces led by the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist George Soros.

Power concedes nothing without a demand, as Frederick Douglass taught us, and we have been fighting powerful forces for centuries… millennia, in the case of Moses, who was the first labor organizers, fighting for the emancipation out of Egypt.

This is meant to be a populist manifesto that doesn't conform to the left/right debate but instead aims to align Democrats with ordinary, middle-class Americans fighting powerful special interests.

As the world's largest single supplier of cocaine, Colombia has spent decades fighting powerful drug cartels that nearly brought the nation to its knees, and attempting to stop farmers producing coca leaf which provides the raw material for the drug trade.

Both approaches were fighting some powerful headwinds.

The departing attorney general, Arturo Chávez Chávez, resigned after less than two years, during which he was accused of being ineffective in fighting the powerful drug cartels.

This episode is also a chilling reminder to the international community of the continuing chaos in Libya — where fighting among powerful rival local militias is on the rise.

I spent a considerable portion of the show fighting a powerful urge to nod off; I bet I wasn't alone.

And supporters will be fighting against powerful status quo bias, no matter how many people tell pollsters right now that M4A sounds like a great idea.