Sentence examples for substantial fighting from inspiring English sources

With protesters now willing to risk injury, a state of emergency would be likely to set off substantial fighting on the streets of the capital.

Mr. Panetta said no decisions had been made about the number of American troops to be withdrawn in 2013, and he made clear that substantial fighting lies ahead.

Though the militia grew until it was a substantial fighting force, Smith was nevertheless gunned down by a kind of quasi-organized lynch mob after having been arrested and jailed in nearby Carthage.

Geithner said the stimulus packages put together by Beijing and Washington had made a substantial contribution to fighting the global downturn and represented a milestone in economic cooperation between the two nations.

The change from RNA to DNA and back to RNA is substantial and makes fighting against HIV challenging.

According to a joint report, substantial progress in fighting sickness and death from infectious diseases is possible over the next decade with drugs, vaccines, and other strategies that are already available.

Krulak asserted that a substantial amount of fighting was still required, particularly in the Mekong Delta, which was regarded as the Viet Cong's strongest region.

"Opponents to the transfer of public lands point to the substantial costs of fighting wildfires as one major impediment to state management," Brandon Boepple, the associate director of Colorado College's State of the Rockies Project, which commissioned the poll, explained in an email to HuffPost.

He credited Mr. Burns with one achievement in particular: fighting for substantial air time for documentaries.

So the Scottish Greens are fighting a substantial "second vote" strategy to urge SNP supporters to lend the Greens their regional vote to strengthen the radical green cause at Holyrood.

Still, if it isn't particularly surprising that women as a group are more skeptical about the war than men, it is surprising how little the arguments of women who oppose the war as women -- rather than, say, as citizens -- have changed over the years and how ill adapted they are to an era in which female soldiers make up a substantial minority of the fighting force in Iraq.