Sentence examples for fought to settle from inspiring English sources

That narrative, of a harrowing but essential national adolescence, would eventually be at the expense of those Brown had died for, and whose fate the war was being fought to settle.

Over the past three decades, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) has fought to settle "unproductive" plots of land held by the state, banks or big landowners, putting activists in the vanguard of campaigns against monocultures, genetically modified crops, forest conservation and inequality.

Fighting to settle political scores or to destabilize the government must stop immediately.

For his part, Mr. Cheney said he welcomed a court fight to settle such an important issue.

As Americans painfully learned in Vietnam, when one side fights to win and the other side fights to settle, the side fighting to win wins.

The fight was never announced but at that stage several deals were in place, far fewer egos were involved and both boxers could have demanded a meeting, a fight to settle any disputes.

The boxer claims he has the means to settle his past due tax bills, but that his assets are mostly illiquid, so he's asking U.S. Tax Court to give him until the payday of his big upcoming fight to settle up.

After he accidentally causes Strickland to be fired, Campbell is challenged to an after-school fist fight to settle the score.

A textbook example of a species using lethal fights to settle a reproductive conflict is the honeybee, Apis mellifera [15].

Apparently, Bladet's editor-in-chief fought hard to settle out of court with the bank, for fears of the staggering costs of fighting a libel case in England.

This dropped Kerr down to 20th position and although he fought to recover he had to settle for 17th.