Sentence examples for ordinary battle from inspiring English sources

For this was no ordinary battle.

Fights over charter schools have become commonplace, but the one being waged right now in Massachusetts — which has long had as fine a public education system as any state in the country — isn't your ordinary battle.

And yet, as the country settled into its great boom, he grew accustomed to more ordinary battles over galleys and page proofs and seemed to take a wry and renewed pleasure in them.

Britain's redefinition of the secular – multiculturalism – was partly achieved through ordinary battles that were not so different from the one ensuing now over Rhodes in Oriel: for instance, Muslim women employees at shops such as Boots being permitted to retain the hijab, a measure of tolerance that would not have been admissible in France.

From Nigeria to Norway Panamaa to Poland Belgiumm to Britain thousands of you got in touch with us to say that you felt cheated by a system that allowed the rich to get richer as ordinary citizens battle austerity and other hardships.

But an otherwise ordinary legal battle between the nearby town of Salbris and Mr. Plée's descendants, who inherited the estate after his death 40 years ago, has brought to light a somber chapter of the man's past, and that of the Château de l'Écluse.

Hasn't the party in power always taken pride in helping ordinary Americans battle high unemployment?

John Howard, who last October was elected prime minister for the fourth time, has made one of the most successful political careers of modern times anywhere by appealing to those ordinary battlers.The battler spirit has its good points and its bad.

Yet the ordinary citizens battling fundamentalism on the ground often do not have a well-run organization like the Muslim Brotherhood to call upon when their rights are violated.

The authorities were reported to have been stunned by the willingness of ordinary people to battle with the police over such a "trivial" issue.

The current team are an ordinary First Division side battling against the threat of relegation.