Sentence examples for longstanding fight from inspiring English sources

The court ruled that Nicaragua violated Costa Rica's territorial integrity in a longstanding fight over a small chunk of land near the shores of the Caribbean Sea.

With the Big Dry upon us, the longstanding fight over the water percolating under the surface in Texas' 9 major and 20 minor aquifers was bound to get contentious before the end of the 82nd legislative session.

For the members of the listserv and for experts in the fields of autism and vaccination, it was a vindication of their longstanding fight against unproven and unscientific fear-mongering.

The Burmese military brought in units to Rangoon from distant parts of the country, where they had become battle-hardened in the longstanding fight against ethnic insurgencies; there were reports that some soldiers had been given drugs before being sent into the streets of the capital.

Ironically, despite hurdles and the longstanding fight for voters' rights, many Americans still don't participate in elections.

Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross have attempted to connect devastating California wildfires to a longstanding fight between farmers and environmentalists over water resources. .

Among our most longstanding fights was how much energy and money should go into Dan's cooking.

Fighting continues between ethnic Kachin rebels and government troops in northern Myanmar, a longstanding conflict that was reignited last year and has resulted in a wave of refugees across the border into China.

But it is a longstanding conflict.

24 hours after the news broke that Philip Hammond would abandon the British government's longstanding pledge to fight for global abolition of capital punishment, Pakistan carried out a shameful execution that shocked the world.

Twitter, by contrast, is trying to fight longstanding problems with abuse by its users, while also seeking a feature that can't immediately be copied, and then executed and monetised better, by Facebook – as happened with its livestreaming app Periscope, which Facebook trumped with Facebook Live.