Sentence examples for sustained fight from inspiring English sources

And Jed Perl has waged a sustained fight against the bad faith of treating "art as money".

This apparently wasn't some frivolous-lawsuit push, but a sustained fight, in which Maes believes he was briefly knocked unconscious.

In his first days here in late June, he fought through three ambushes, each lasting as long as the most sustained fight he saw in Anbar.

But American officials said that the United States would provide more communications training and equipment to help improve the combat effectiveness of disparate opposition forces in their widening, sustained fight against Syrian Army troops.

The wounded infantryman, a lance corporal who carried a squad automatic weapon, was struck as he crouched behind a wall, returning fire during a sustained fight in which incoming bullets were whistling and snapping just overhead, or striking the walls.

"The regime didn't seem to put up a sustained fight against the Isis attack on Palmyra, which is in and of itself concerning," said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and author of Profiling the Islamic State.

On the contrary, the gripping, all-female, London-born production that opened on Wednesday night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn has a muscular strength and ferocity guaranteed to keep everyone in the theater in sustained fight-or-flight mode.

Activities related to such a pessimistic view of the future include attempting suicide, using illegal drugs, sustaining fight-related injuries that require medical care, engaging in unprotected sex, being arrested by the police and contracting HIV or AIDS.

Belgian plans did not call for the garrison of the fort and the attached defending forces to fight a sustained battle against an attacking force; it was assumed that sufficient warning of an attack would be given so that the detachment on the eastern side of the canal could be withdrawn, the bridges destroyed and the garrison ready to fight a delaying action.

Jaydee Dorsett, 20, murdered Ekpaloba in a "violent and sustained knife fight" at his flat in Wood Green after a botched robbery by Ekpaloba and an associate, a court heard in July.

Like the United States in its heyday of anticommunism, 'nationalist' organizations, anti-union bourgeois and the religious fundamentalists sustained the fight against communism at home (Leffler 1994 59).