Sentence examples for fought to become from inspiring English sources

During the Middle Ages, Brittany fought to become and remain an independent duchy.

This James Brown biography is as showstopping as the screaming, moaning, kinetically blessed performer it describes, capturing both the toughness of Brown and the racially polarized America in which he fought to become a crossover star.

Along the way, she's palled around with everyone from John Peel, Keith Moon, and a little known outfit called The Beatles, fought to become the first female DJ to host her own radio show, partied like a rock star (one legendary house party bender lasting the better part of a week), and even recently quit smoking a habit she nursed for decades.

"I'm going to fight to become the nominee," said Sanders, speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union.

"We have a choice: we can become a shrinking regional party of middle-aged and older white men, or we can fight to become a national governing party," Mr. Weaver said in an interview.

Fighting to become the youngest ever winner of the US Masters, beating the record Tiger Woods set in 1997, Mr Spieth could not quite keep his head.He started brilliantly, holing one out of the sand, hitting laser-like irons and rolling in some ice-cool birdie putts.

England's Nicola Adams and Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh will fight to become the first female Commonwealth boxing champion, in the women's flyweight boxing final.

The late February injury scuttled plans for popular featherweight champion Conor McGregor to fight to become the UFC's first-ever simultaneous double-title winner, so McGregor agreed to fight replacement fighter Nate Diaz of Stockton at the welterweight limit of 170 pounds -- 25 pounds heavier  than the featherweight limit and 15 pounds more than the lightweight limit.

Ducournau's film impressively lays bare the alienation one can feel when realizing there's something about oneself that's not like many others in this case, cannibalism but through it, Justine also explores her own femininity and what it means to fight to become yourself.

Dave Hill is the author of Zac versus Sadiq: The fight to Become London Mayor.

Bleak and beautiful, Scared Country charts the life of Mary Ward and her slow and frustrating fight to become Martin.