Sentence examples for fought the effort from inspiring English sources

Not suprisingly, MSG has fought the effort in court, since the Yankees are their biggest draw.

And like the cause for which the South fought, the effort to save the battleground from the bulldozers long appeared futile.

In arguing for the Democrats to allow Florida to go early, Ms. Thurman and other party officials said that the party had unsuccessfully fought the effort by Florida Republicans to move up the date.

"Who wants to take a chance on someone who was locked up for 10 and a half years?" In 2007, he filed a petition asking that his record be expunged, but Pennsylvania fought the effort, arguing that based on the victim's testimony, the state still viewed Mr. Moto as the assailant, even though prosecutors did not believe they could convict him again.

But 14 of them, including Arellano, remained free of court-ordered restraints while their attorneys fought the effort.

Many Sunni leaders have rallied to the cause while top Shiites in Baghdad have fought the efforts, aggravating the sectarian divisions among the country's political elite.

Even gun-rights organizations like the National Rifle Association, which fought the efforts in both states, Colorado and Oregon, say the time might be right for a bipartisan agreement.

Needing a powerful army to wage the anticipated war, William bitterly fought the efforts of Holland to reduce the standing army and thereby to permit more rapid payment of the huge debt accumulated over the 80 years' struggle for independence.

The American Seafood Distributors Association, an industry group that supports free trade, said it would fight the effort.

Voters defeated a hard-fought ballot initiative in California late last year after the biotech industry, and major corporations like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, spent millions of dollars to fight the effort.

Although only sketchy information about the proposals has been available to date, the war drums have started beating among various other politicians, community boards and neighborhood groups sensing they should fight the effort.