Sentence examples for we were fought from inspiring English sources

Donald W. Murphy, deputy director of the Park Service, said that when he tried this year to appoint a manager in charge of law enforcement, "We were fought tooth and nail to prevent that from happening".

"I remember talking to the Estonian foreign minister, who said: 'We lost a quarter of our population between the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939 and the partisans being put down by Stalin in 1946, and we were fought over by the Nazis and the Soviets.

"We were fought tooth and nail on this, and we won," Galperin said.

We were fought over by different coyotes [human smugglers] that wanted to steal some of the women from the group that we were with.

One recent article, for example, was titled "Inside View: Why We're Fighting in the Arabian Peninsula".

Now, We're Fighting For Union Rights.

The war we fight now is not the same war that was fought 40 years ago.

"All we can do is fight the prejudice.

All we can do is fight the darkness with light.

We were resilient and fought hard".

When we were attacked we fought back.