I battled mesquite, dust, and the wind... to keep it this big.

The Avars battled the walls uselessly til their catapults ran out of rocks.

A few dozen emergency workers who battled the fire at the reactor succumbed to acute radiation sickness.

She regarded ideas as the very core of politics, and she battled for those that she held.

During the second half of the year, Nadal battled a knee injury suffered during the Wimbledon final.

The morality plays were allegorical stories in which these characters battled for the control of the soul.

Welby, who suffered from muscular dystrophy and was paralyzed, had battled unsuccessfully in the Italian courts for the right to die.

Ten people were killed and around 500 injured as soldiers battled with protesters in and around Tahrir Square since December 16.

The effectiveness of such an effort would depend greatly on how law enforcement officials, the Procurator and the judiciary battled corruption.

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, soldiers from both sides battled heat exhaustion and each other for nearly 20 long years.

Since the beginning of his travails in Bulgaria, he has battled the system by confronting the government branches responsible for his persecution.

She became my first ally in the game, my husband Kiyash joined next, and together we identified and battled the bad guys.

But, going back to the Russian, British, and Ottoman Empires that once battled here, they have been continually exploited by politicians and generals.

It is revealing that in Italy, in the 1980 s, the judges who battled the Sicilian mafia described their campaign as clean hands.

Calderón s offensive increased his popularity, but it also provoked a new rise in violence, as the drug gangs not only battled government forces, but also settled accounts among themselves.

There was a currency crisis that started in the spring of 2008, and on 6 October trading in Iceland's banks was suspended as the government battled to save the economy.

The Peshmerga women have battled with ISIS fighters, and standing on an equal footing with men in their ranks is evidently perceived to be an alien concept in the Middle East.

But I've battled through a varied experience with men of many nations... roamed over half the globe, while you've spent your whole life... with one set of people in one house.

Government and commercial activities virtually ground to halt this spring as democracy activists, in alliance with politicians and lawmakers opposed to a third term, battled Obasanjo s allies to thwart the proposed bill.

The only reason we haven't is because it would impair somewhat the record profitability of the fossil fuel industry and so they have battled at every turn to keep it from happening.

It participated in the great naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, and in the following century battled the Turks for 25 years until 1669, when it gained control of the Peloponnese in Greece.

Part of the work of renewing Ukraine is a creative battle to put an end to a nightmarish century during which fascism and communism ideologies born in the heart of Europe battled for mastery.

Before the Assembly stands a man who battled with all his forces in the Ukrainian Parliament for the decommissioning of the Chernobyl atomic power station, which is a wounded beast and therefore extremely dangerous.

It is not right for a Prophet to keep captives unless he has battled strenuously in the land . You desire the gain of this world , while God desires for you the Hereafter God is mighty and wise .

No apostle should take captives until he has battled and subdued the country . You desire the vanities of this world , but God wills ( for you the reward ) of the world to come and God is all mighty and all wise .

The financial industry battled against this new legislation. It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.

Since the beginning of his travails in Bulgaria, he has battled the system by confronting the government branches responsible for his persecution. Indeed, he has sued the very prosecutor in whose hands his current extradition now rests an act that may be jeopardizing his right to a fair hearing.

Women fighting in the ranks of the armed Kurdish forces have come into the spotlight as ISIS has made large territorial gains in Mosul, one of the largest cities in Iraq, and battled to take control of the autonomous Kurdish canton of Kobane on the border of Turkey.

We're on the verge of amazing, amazing events in many fields, and yet I actually think we'd have to go back hundreds, 300 years, before the Enlightenment, to find a time when we battled progress, when we fought about these things more vigorously, on more fronts, than we do now.