Sentence examples for term fought from inspiring English sources

Not because the police or Mayor Bloomberg or even President Obama — who, at the beginning of his first term, fought for and signed into law a new federal hate-crimes bill, which, for the first time, included gays and lesbians — had not done enough to prevent such heinous crimes but because we all have not done enough to eliminate prejudice in our political discourse and society more generally.

The term "fight or flight" refers to how humans were designed to deal with stress.

To either run for your life or fight for your life (thus the term "fight or flight").

For long term fights, see the next two methods.

The Giuliani mayoral era might be divided in two: In the first term, he fought crime and a calcified Civil Service, and left a couple of unions housebroken; in the second, he replayed all of this as farce.

During his second term, Hume fought to keep the tidelands law intact and continued to support laissez-faire government and low taxes.

Those terms you fought so hard to get out of "clean term sheets" by using TheFunded, VentureHacks and the like are in your current documents.

In all recent mid-term elections fought during wars 1942, 1950 and 1966 the party in power did poorly even when the president was himself popular.

In the other closely watched House race in New Jersey, Representative Michael Ferguson, the first-term Republican, fought off a hard challenge by Tim Carden, a former commissioner of the Department of Human Services.

The three-term incumbent fought off beekeeper and almond farmer Michael Eggman for a second time.

He courted public officials, sought their backing for government tax breaks under extraordinarily beneficial terms and fought any resistance to deals he negotiated.