Sentence examples for had raged for from inspiring English sources

Those accords were supposed to end a civil war that had raged for 36 years and cost the lives of about 200,000 people.

Fighting around the tomb had raged for several hours before, with the high-caliber battles reverberating through the hills of Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

The atmosphere which had raged for two hours briefly settled into resignation in large swaths of the hall, but not for long.

Mr. Rajapaksa received nearly 60 percent of the vote in January after his government's decisive May 2009 defeat of the Tamil Tiger insurgency, which had raged for 26 years and defied the efforts of his predecessors to end it.

Though a public debate had raged for years over whether the mailed anthrax had been "weaponized" with sophisticated chemical additives, the F.B.I. had concluded early on that it was not.

By midafternoon on May 4, after a battle between Afghan police and army forces and Taliban fighters had raged for hours, Marines Special Operations forces called in air strikes.

The debate has raged for decades.

The war since December 2006 has raged for three main reasons.

The debate has raged for decades," writes Jess Cartner-Morley.

This public-versus-private power debate has raged for years.

In the rest of the world the debate has raged for decades.