Sentences with phrase «bitter wars against»

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Lapomarda's own work, along with that of the Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews, and the eminent Jewish historian Jeno Levai, Hungarian Jewry and the Papacy, is a good place to start for a fair and sympathetic account of the Catholic side of the unrelenting and often bitter struggle waged during the war years against both Nazi and Stalinist forms of atheistic secularism.

Abu Bakr declared war to the bitter end against the assertion of some of the tribes that their covenants with the Prophet were not valid after his death and that therefore they were free to shape their attitude toward the community as they saw fit.

Mr. de Blasio was locked in a bitter battle with Uber, pitting some progressives against a company that enlisted veterans of the Obama, Bloomberg and Cuomo administrations to wage an effective public relations war against City Hall.

In the final season of The Americans the Jenningses — the KGB spy couple dedicated to unremitting war against the U.S. — are at war with one another, and a bitter, masterfully dramatized war it is.

In this companion to The Wednesday Wars (2007), eighth - grader Doug Swieteck has plenty of strikes against him, but as his confidence grows, Hoppe mirrors the transformation through vocal tones that move from bitter resignation to rising hope.

Apple has decided to end a bitter legal war against Google and Android phone makers, and to turn away from patent tactics that have cost the smartphone industry billions of dollars, according to reports and new court filings.