Sentence examples for has successfully battled from inspiring English sources

In recent years, P.G. & E. has successfully battled local public power initiatives from San Francisco to Sacramento to Yolo County.

"The MGM film presented the story in a certain way, and it's those things — the embellishments, the creative decisions — that Disney cannot use," explained Bonnie Eskenazi, a leading copyright lawyer with no ties to "Oz the Great and Powerful" who has successfully battled studios on behalf of theJ.

Tiger does indeed have a strong track record at Augusta and has successfully battled adversity in the past.

But, other than smoking -- which hopefully President Obama has successfully battled by now -- I think he's entering his 50s in good health and with a lot of style.

One of the reasons that this deliberate pace of regulation has worked is that at crucial moments, the environmental community has successfully battled EPA and state agencies in court, and provided a political counterforce to the power exerted by industry.

At the time, Mr. Laudor, who had successfully battled schizophrenia, had stopped responding to medication and had become severely delusional.

Large insurers, and powerful pharmaceutical companies, and Republican Congresses, and a Who's Who of other malign forces have successfully battled its passage because they deeply oppose it.

"A senior Liberal Democrat source" told Alan Travis that Nick Clegg and Vince Cable had successfully battled to prevent the Tories imposing an arbitrary cap on student migration and had forced the Home Office to change "potentially devastating" plans.

Once you've successfully battled the Clearing phone line scrum to secure a place at a university you're happy with, it will be tempting to go and join your mates to celebrate.

Both the United States and the colonial powers in Europe were profoundly threatened by the specter of slaves who had successfully battled for their freedom; the United States didn't even recognize Haiti for over 50 years.

Having successfully battled his father to let the team leave the Jonestown compound and play a game in Guyana's capital in the middle of November 1978, Stephan Jones survived the demise of his father's ruinous experiment.