Sentence examples for fought plans from inspiring English sources

Local residents fought plans for a rental complex for years, complaining that renters would not have a sufficient stake in the community.

The dead man's family fought plans for an inquest to be held with secret evidence that would have been withheld from them and their lawyers.

In some cities, they've fought plans to use automated sorting equipment because they wanted people to have the hands-on experience.

In recent months, citizens' groups in central Texas have fought plans to reopen a 700-mile underground gas pipeline, fearing that a leak could pollute the region's water source.

For years, preservationists fought plans to reclad the Venetian-inspired, porthole-studded facade of the 1965 building, which is to become the new home of the MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN.

But not until residents organized to fight plans to add lanes to Canal Street did the whole picture emerge.

Five years ago Dungavell joined local swimmers to fight plans to convert the Grade II listed baths into flats.

Two years ago, Mr. Addington helped fight plans to build a nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca, and he considered the closing of the Merco operation a bittersweet victory.

In the shadow of the Wallace monument near Stirling, meanwhile, protesters invoked Wallace's memory to fight plans to site pylons near the landmark.

Bruce Lee's estate says it will fight plans to digitally recreate the legendary martial artist for a forthcoming Hong Kong action movie.

The tycoon revealed he had established a "substantial" war chest to fight plans to build more offshore facilities, which he said he was doing to "save Scotland and honour my mother, Mary MacLeod".