Sentence examples for local fighting from inspiring English sources

Local fighting lasted 10 months, from February to December 1916.

Local fighting continued throughout the month, and the final significant German attack, on September 3, yielded no gains.

After joining and fighting on behalf of some local fighting groups against American forces, I ultimately joined Al Qaeda.

In rural areas, people continue to support local fighting units, since they are made up of their sons, husbands and fathers.

The division was named Handschar, after a local fighting knife or sword carried by Turkish policemen during the centuries that the region was part of the Ottoman Empire.

It was given the title Handschar after a local fighting knife or sword carried by Turkish policemen during the centuries that the region was part of the Ottoman Empire.

The crowd was only 50,000 but the tone was set by locals fighting a pitched battle with the police.

While there are many locals fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, there are also many "volunteers" who have come from Russia.

Yemeni fighters trained by the Gulf states have arrived in Aden to assist locals fighting the Houthi rebels, as clashes continued in the contested port city and the Saudi-led coalition denied sending in ground troops.

We were so sure — some among us, anyway — that we would have two locals fighting for the big prize in November: the Republican former mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the Democratic junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Natural gas flares give the sky a hellish glow in Mr Maass's dispatch from Nigeria, in which he canoes around with the "king" of a band of Niger Delta locals fighting Shell, the biggest oil company in the region.The recurring tragedy of oil is that it produces wealth but not what is needed most in poor countries: jobs.