Sentence examples for representatives fought from inspiring English sources

Industry representatives fought back: At one point Aerosol Age, a trade journal, speculated that Rowland was a member of the Soviet Union's KGB, out to destroy capitalism.

Over the last decade, as the reported catch climbed beyond the roughly 80 million tons a year that scientists saw as the outer limit of sustainable fishing, fishing industry representatives fought against stringent limits and cited the apparently continued growth in catches as a reason to keep expanding fleets.

During their time on the council, HRP representatives fought for measures including pioneering antidiscrimination ordinances, measures decriminalizing marijuana possession, and a rent-control ordinance; many of these remain in effect in modified form.

At this year's Congress, the Guardian described a resolution to end the domestic trade in ivory as 'descending into acrimony' as delegates and national representatives fought over the what they believed to be the most effective methods of protecting native elephant populations.

Demand that your political representatives fight for serious bank regulations and consumer finance protection - like what we had in place before the Glass-Steagall Act was killed with the help of Bob Rubin and Larry Summers.

Ms. Foster's representative fought back, telling People magazine that the youth was "a professional paparazzo," and that the police report was a "fabrication" of what actually happened.

SOUTH CAROLINA In one of the nation's most heated Senate races, Jim DeMint, a three-term Republican representative, fought hard to defeat the Democrat, Inez Tenenbaum.

Meanwhile, senators and representatives fight for military projects for their constituents believing that it will help employment and increase their prospects for reelection.

Those differences were on display Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where the traditional Republican who now leads the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Howard P. McKeon, fought back against proposed cuts in the Pentagon budget even as fledgling committee members supported by the Tea Party said that the nation's debts amounted to a national security risk.

Surely the protection of privacy is something that we expect our elected representatives to fight for on our behalf?

These are the solicitors and representatives who fight an unpopular and difficult cause at police stations, hour after unsociable hour, to protect the most vulnerable.