Sentence examples for stiff fighting from inspiring English sources

Stiff fighting between those forces and militants was continuing as of 1 a.m.

His meeting with the rebel leader, Laurent Kabila, was a failure; the rebels claimed, amid reports of stiff fighting, to be closing in on Kinshasa, the capital.

"This is war now, stiff fighting," one commander, Khan Muhammad, told the horde of foreign journalists who were held back again at a wide space in the dirt track several miles from the fighting.

Only the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry encountered any opposition before they captured the two Hill 187 features, losing one killed and six wounded during stiff fighting in which 28 Chinese were also killed.

It takes a certain kind of person to get up in the predawn darkness, trek across hundreds of yards of ice, usually bucking a stiff headwind and fighting the biting cold, to find the place where last spring, you think you may have found the perch ganging up.

All of which says that the SC 430 is suddenly fighting stiff competition at a huge price disadvantage.

Nothing is as nice as starting the day without fighting stiff plastic shells.

He said data on the causes of brain trauma was insufficient to warrant stiffer penalties for fighting.

Paul Mytton, the Villa Park grounds manager, picked up the Premier League Grounds Team of the Year award after fighting off stiff competition from Arsenal and, inevitably, Leicester City.

Who can forget the scene of disarray outside the United States Supreme Court on the night of Dec. 12? Dozens of television lights and cameras were trained on the court's dark plaza as journalists and lawyers, fighting a stiff wind, flipped through the 65-page, six-opinion decision of Bush v. Gore, seeking the fate of the 2000 presidential election.

Ysgol Iau Llangennech won the junior school choir category after fighting off stiff competition.