Sentence examples for fought on issues from inspiring English sources

Both campaigns were fought on issues of war and peace.

"I think the campaign should be fought on issues," said Michael Long, the chairman of the state Conservative Party, which endorsed Mr. Paladino for governor.

Four years ago, when he ran for re-election, Mr. Clinton largely shied away from such pointed appeals to class and against the powerful when his advisers decided that the election should be fought on issues of values.

If the indictment was strong, Mr. Crystal said, Mr. Lieberman would push for legislation that would divide elements of Mr. Netanyahu's coalition in the hope of forcing early elections fought on issues that might divert attention from Mr. Lieberman's personal drama.

The campaign was fought on issues such as education, employment and care for the elderly, and saw Labour increase their share of the vote, with an 11.25 percent swing from the SNP and a majority of 5,488.

"This won't be an election fought on issues but a relentlessly negative campaign in which each party will try to smear its rivals as irresponsible fanatics," Anshell Pfeffer writes in Haaretz.

"It is a gift to the Conservatives which allows them to further marginalise student opinion when there is a real need to fight on issues like interest on student loans and cuts to bursaries.

She said she would continue to fight on issues, despite Labour losing nationally.

"I advise [candidates] to fight on issues where we can win issues where we don't alienate enormous numbers of people, and give Democrats an excuse to scare voters.

"The next election will now be fought on policy issues, on alternatives of how the country can be further governed and developed, and on quality instead of sensational issues," he said.

And it is hard to draw broad lessons from local races often fought on local issues.