fighting
Example Sentences
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has spent decades ferociously fighting against a salary cap, viewing it only as a mechanism designed to suppress salaries without addressing competition.
That choking siege in July was the worst but not the first attack by an enemy that Los Angeles would be fighting long after World War II was over.
From Los Angeles Times
"I do understand what the protesters are fighting for," he said.
From BBC
Pakistan has passed on a 15-point US plan to stop the fighting to Tehran, two officials in Islamabad said.
From Barron's
The fighting, which has choked the flow of oil and natural gas through the vital Strait of Hormuz, has been felt far beyond the energy industry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.