Sentence examples for of being fought from inspiring English sources

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The Syrian army is short of recruits after four years of war and shows signs of being fought out.

"The war has the misfortune of being fought at a time when military tactics, military strategy was a step behind technology," the historian J. David Hacker says, "and being fought about 10 years before we really had a proper understanding of what causes disease, how to prevent disease from breaking out and how to treat what diseases we have".

Government forces are showing signs of being fought out after four years of war and have recently suffered a series of defeats at the hands of  Isis, which captured Palmyra in May, and by a coalition led by the al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, which took Idlib city in March.

As for the children, a distinguished battery of psychologists, social workers and sadder-but-wiser judges have by now concluded that the sheer experience of being fought over for years can endanger the emotional health even of a normal child with good parents.

In principle, Jack Black probably likes the idea of being fought over, but not like this: the video game publisher Activision has filed suit to halt the release of Brutal Legend, a game in which Mr. Black plays a central role, below, The Associated Press reported.

Last month Cosby entered syndication on rival independent stations around the country, putting NBC in the unhappy position of being fought and sometimes beaten with its own product.... Regulations enacted by the Federal Communications Commission in 1970 bar ABC, NBC and CBS from sharing in the syndication proceeds of the programs they broadcast..

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There are still plenty of battles to be fought.

On their right the Battle of Nablus was being fought.

The fight over the funding of Obamacare was a fight that needed to be fought.

That will, of course, be fought.

Culture wars, of course, are fought in every country.

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