Sentence examples for intensely fought from inspiring English sources

Oregon has two of the most closely watched and intensely fought ballot initiatives.

The issue of logging in Tasmania has become an intensely fought political battle in Australia in recent weeks.

In states with intensely fought races during the primary season, phone subscribers have complained of receiving as many as 20 election-related calls — mostly automated "robocalls" — per week.

Senior aides to Mr. Romney say they are not overly worried about the impact of what they conceded has so far been an intensely fought intraparty campaign.

The partisan divide on Iraq has fluctuated but endured across two intensely fought campaigns in which war and peace — and the overarching campaign against terrorism — have figured heavily.

With only five minutes left in an intensely fought second half, midfielder Junichi Inamoto put the ball past the Belgian goalie for the second time.

Mr. Romney's large advertising expenditure, as well as the comparison he drew between Mr. McCain and President Richard M. Nixon, who resigned in disgrace after the Watergate scandal, showed that he was going to intensely fight Mr. McCain, the Republican front-runner, for California's 173 Republican delegates in the state's presidential primary Tuesday.

FedEx and UPS were no cosy duopoly; they competed intensely, and fought DHL's every innovation.

After all, Reagan and Ford had fought intensely for the nomination in 1976.

The two parties fought intensely over Central America; the Reagan Administration was determined to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

The Iraqi Army was fighting sporadically, but, where it engaged, it fought intensely, and some Marine units had taken heavy casualties.