Sentence examples for fought attempt from inspiring English sources

The local media are screaming for new rules from the government to protect Korea's virtue from foreign corporate marauders.Together, Mr Icahn, who has just ended a bitterly fought attempt to break up Time Warner, Mr Lichtenstein, who has had some success with aggressive corporate tactics in Japan, and their allies control about 6.7% of KT&G shares.

He inherited a minimalist regulatory regime, and has fought attempts to change it.

Staff in the police service, like the judiciary, have fought attempts at reform.

Serving Government ministers have fought attempts to make them repay taxpayers for some of their expenses claims, it has emerged.

China has fought attempts to link Darfur to the Olympics, but it has also responded at times to the pressure.

He has fought attempts to get access to his email exchanges with the Bundys during the occupation.

For decades, package store owners who clearly enjoy having their day of rest have fought attempts to overturn the restrictions.

Let would-be realists note how the president and his allies fought attempts to weaken his tax proposals.

And the industry and sympathetic politicians in Washington fought attempts to regulate the products, arguing that it would force the lucrative business overseas.

Qatada – who in 1999 was convicted in his absence of terrorism charges in Jordan – has fought attempts to deport him for 10 years since he was first detained.

Since then, she has been at a Jerusalem hospital while her family fought attempts by Israel to transfer her to a West Bank facility they said could not treat her condition.