Sentence examples for intramural battles from inspiring English sources

Besides Iraq, Republicans said the party would engage in intramural battles over its positions on gay marriage, gun control, health care and taxes.

If any state university might try to create a different model, you would think it might be Rutgers, which was established in 1766, was a private college for most of its existence, is relatively new to the athletic big time and has fought furious intramural battles for two decades over big-time sports.

That vow intensified concerns among party leaders that the opportunities they see coming out of Tuesday's results could be dimmed by intramural battles over whether to reach for the political center or do more to motivate the base on the party's right.

The game was so lopsided that the only drama turned out to be the intramural battle for the Heisman Trophy between quarterback Ken Dorsey and running back Willis McGahee.

The nonprofit center has an intramural Battle of the Ages coming up; its youngsters against its septuagenarian regulars, who call themselves the Geezers.

By contrast, Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, indicated in a statement that the association would stay neutral in any intramural battle.

Correction: March 21, 2000, Tuesday An article on Thursday about an intramural battle at the Sierra Club over the ouster of leaders of the New York City chapter misstated the position held by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Riverkeeper, another environmental group.

In New Jersey, the battle over pensions and health care has turned into an intramural fight among Democrats, who control both houses of the Legislature, threatening to shake up the party's leadership and weaken it in coming elections, thereby strengthening Mr. Christie's hand.

But it is probably safe to strike him from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's short list for No. 2. Mr. Nelson took the opportunity over the Congressional recess to endorse Senator Barack Obama as Senate Democrats became more serious about taking sides in what amounts to an intramural fight between two current colleagues and one former one, sort of the battle for class president writ large.

Looking ahead to a Rudd-Gillard battle, the lead headline on The Age's Web site proclaimed: "It's On!" Mr. Rudd, 54, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010, was ousted by Ms. Gillard in an intramural fight within the Labor Party.

PAGE A8 An Intramural Budget Battle Republicans in the House and the Senate, unable to reach agreement with the White House on crucial end-of-year spending issues, were themselves at odds over exactly what to do next.