Sentence examples for was successfully fought from inspiring English sources

During his first premiership (1901 06) an alliance with Great Britain was concluded (1902) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904 05) was successfully fought, making Japan a world power.

He did make attempts to wind back Whitlam's signature free education reforms – although these were successfully fought by an organised student movement.

Although the battle of Baja California appears to have been successfully fought and lost, Mexico's president faces a long, politically heated summer.

Groups that have long advocated for HIV patients praised the governor's announcement, saying it shows that efforts to fight the disease are paying off, and that a scourge that once seemed unbeatable can be successfully fought.

"This has been successfully fought off, and the balance is now tipping the other way," he said.

In the 890s, renewed Viking attacks were successfully fought off by Alfred, assisted by his son (and Æthelstan's father) Edward and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.

He saw the injustices in the international economic and political order the same way he saw the social injustices within Venezuela -- as a social evil and something that could be successfully fought against.

Earlier today, a CDMA-friendly Nexus One (model PB99300, where the GSM version is PB99100) successfully fought its way through the FCC's testing labs.

In that year a war of intervention was messily but successfully fought over Kosovo, as a result of which the Balkans are a rather better place than they used to be.

It was the most successfully fought of all the 1988 fires.

Jackson's flanking maneuver was successfully deflected and the Battle of Chantilly was fought to a stalemate.