Sentence examples for seriously fought from inspiring English sources

In this case, the Syrian opposition claim is that the Syrian army has never seriously fought Isis and, indeed, is complicit in its growth and expansion.

Sotheby's York Avenue salesroom in Manhattan was a bidding battleground last night with record prices being made as paintings by artists like Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann and Joan Miró were seriously fought over by multiple bidders.

Thus an addict might opt for drug court to avoid prison or with sincere intentions of going straight, but if treatment fails and he is expelled from the program, he must serve a sentence without having seriously fought the charges.

Consider Seitlhobogi Van Der Lith, a 39-year-old former secretary for an engineering firm: by the time Botswana began to seriously fight AIDS, she had lost her older sister, twin brother and nephew to the disease.

The argument's upshot is that "[r]ich Northern states have a double moral obligation to seriously fight global poverty and to let more people in" (Bader 1997, 31).

"He is tough against Taliban, and they have fought seriously against each other," said Hajji-Abdul Matten, a tribal elder in Kandahar.

Yet Diana's contradictions — that she was a vain clotheshorse who also fought seriously against land mines and reached out to those with AIDS, that she was extremely visible yet desperately lonely, that she was needy and endearing and charming and difficult all at once — are nowhere in these pages.

He was seriously wounded and fought alone until reinforcements arrived.

Wired on "x," the dictator may have experienced the explosion as if wrapped up in cotton wool, and felt as invulnerable as Wagner's Siegfried while all around him the seriously wounded officers fought for their lives, their hair in flames.

(AP) Romanowski Sued by Teammate Oakland Raiders linebacker Bill Romanowski was sued yesterday by a teammate, Marcus Williams, who was seriously injured when they fought during a practice last August.

The horse had once been seriously ill and Champion fought cancer, but they were both nurtured back to health and scored a famous triumph for trainer Josh Gifford.