Sentence examples for stiff battle from inspiring English sources

A stiff battle is expected this spring.

This week, US Airways vowed to give Southwest a stiff battle.

The biggest backer of WiMax is Intel, which hopes to extend its dominance in computer chips into wireless devices.WiMax faces a stiff battle with enhanced 3G systems.

Mr. Gephardt is locked in a stiff battle in Iowa with Dr. Dean that could determine the viability of his candidacy but has been unable to raise enough money to consider abandoning the system.

A Senate bill sponsored by Mary Landrieu, a Democrat who is facing a stiff battle to hold her seat in Louisiana, and supported by some half-dozen Democrats, would allow people to keep their current insurance plans permanently, instead of temporarily as Mr. Obama proposes, thus posing a permanent threat to the risk pools.

Mr. da Silva's plans for more control of the new fields will face a stiff battle in Brazil's Congress, where opposition leaders say they will push to delay the plan, to deny him a victory that could be a political boost to Dilma Rousseff, his chief of staff and chosen candidate to succeed him in next year's election.

Stiff battles were expected over proposals to freeze salaries, raise the value-added tax and to cut various benefits, including special entitlements for large families.

Syrian-based activist Mustafa Osso said Assad's military should be ready to face stiff battles as residents planned to fight until "the last person".

Other New York Democrats who are facing stiff battles have not been as willing to cross the aisle: Representative Michael Arcuri, who represents central New York, has voted with Mr. Boehner 49 percent of the time and Ms. Pelosi 92 percent, while Representative Timothy H. Bishop, on Long Island, has comparable figures of 45 percent and 99 percent.

It faces an even stiffer battle in the state Senate, where Mr Corbett can ill afford to lose a single Republican vote.

And they have just as predictably enraged environmentalists, who may mount a stiff rearguard battle against them.