Sentence examples for given to fighting from inspiring English sources

As a youth, McCain was a hell-raiser, smaller than his fellows and given to fighting and angry outbursts.

Critics also said that the priority given to fighting major Communist units in the field impeded efforts to regain control of villages, and that the mobility gained by the lavish use of aircraft was misused.

This week the organizations are to report the names of correspondents selected to fill the assignments so they can be offered the same inoculations against smallpox and anthrax already given to fighting forces.

Arthur - a bright, cocky lathe-worker given to fighting, fucking and fishing first, meditating on the system that keeps him in his place second - lives wholly in the rowdy bosom of his extended Nottinghamshire family.

In his youth Percy was reportedly "very wild more than ordinary, and much given to fighting", although his excesses were tempered somewhat by his conversion to Catholicism.

One brief notation describes her father as "a flamboyant character given to fighting bulls on vacations in Mexico, who was superintendent of construction until the early 1930s". "He was flamboyant, all right," Trent smiled.

This magical land was first given to the fighting Alokozai tribe by Nadir Shah, who brought down the Safavid empire of Persia with its help in 1738.

Preference is given to students fighting against childhood hunger.

That is the amount of research grants the California stem cell program gave to scientists fighting Parkinson's disease -- so far.

The conquistadores, given more to fighting and the search for gold than to governance, were quickly replaced by administrators and settlers from Spain.

"Enormous credit must be given to these visitors for fighting to the end.