Sentence examples for years fighting over from inspiring English sources

"You spend years fighting over nothing".

have spent years fighting over the question of whether to ordain gays and lesbians, with opponents of that idea prevailing.

As a result, if Republicans spend much of the next two years fighting over these programs, voters who depend on them are going to be unpleasantly surprised.

When couples "don't want to spend three years fighting over the coffee table," he said, they go to a divorce mediator.

The alternative is to spend the next five years fighting over the corpse of a social-democratic party where the left is blamed for everything.

The Franks took the interior, which they then spent years fighting over with outraged locals and, as usual, with each other.

Mr. Welch, an outspoken Republican, is worried about it, too: "Why did we spend a whole year fighting over health care and ignoring jobs?" And so is Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt.

Stealing runs in two directions, and there's a reason most employers look the other way when it comes to a few dollars a year: fighting over pennies is counterproductive.

Microsoft and Google have had a rough year, fighting over email, YouTube, and more.

Tories have spent 12 years mulling over, and fighting over, a version of the problem that now confronts American Republicans.

They have seen 5-year-olds who -- when fighting over a toy -- say they must let a judge decide.