Sentences with phrase «fought over the region»

Several wars have been fought over the region, and there are ongoing border tensions which occasionally flare up into conflict.

Enemy kings had long fought over the region's lucrative river trade.

Not exact matches

Over the last year and a half, Uber has taken aim at the Asia Pacific region, earmarking more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.

Lawsuit over Paso Robles Vineyard Wells Reveals Growing Water Fight: A lawsuit in California's Paso Robles wine region could impact how vintners in an increasingly thirsty region get their water...

The soda and junk - food aisles are the Balkans of the supermarket — they're not a terribly productive region, yet everyone seems to be fighting dirty over the space.

The United States has historically backed Israel in order to maintain some control over the region; virtually everything else in the area is anti-U.S. So Israel was convenient as a kind of base for the U.S. - it could send fighter planes to Israel instead of having them fly from inefficiently far away; and plus, if things got really hairy in the middle east, Israel could do some of the actual fighting too.

Several central and northern New York legislators are praising the state's new budget as a win for the region's schools, but they say it was a hard - fought battle that is not over yet.

In a joint appearance Friday in Melville at the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group, King and Suozzi said while the fight is not over, the outlook is grim.

As many school districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meeting.

As GE seeks to close the books on a $ 1.7 billion cleanup of the upper Hudson River, a new fight is simmering over the company's legacy of toxic pollution in the region.

That's a shame, because putting up a fight with the chance of getting a North Fork representative in the Assembly majority would be beneficial to the region, and Mr. Deegan's work as a Mattituck Parks District commissioner has been admirable (though a recent issue over whether or not he swore an oath of office has him off the board).

To do this we would need to compare DNA from present populations with genetic material from ancient human remains — a political hot potato in some regions, including the US (see «The legal fight over prehistory»).

Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

Add to those enrollment numbers the stagnant pay, attrition, retirements, an improving economy and politicized fights over tenure, and you've got the makings of a genuine problem in some regions.

The expanded competition was meant to give opportunities to players in regions that didn't have big competitive gaming scenes or were often skipped over by events like these, as well as players who prefer the other types of fighting games.

With 19 maps and a choice of multiple characters from all over the franchise you'll be able to fight in 4v4 teams in either social or competitive game modes including: classic Warzone, Execution, King of the Hill and new modes Team Deathmatch and 2v2 Gnashers, all on dedicated servers for all regions.

Set across two centuries of bloody historical warfare from 280 B.C. to 25 B.C, Field of Glory 2 has you fighting for control of the Mediterranean Sea, the centre of European power at the time, as you endeavour to rule over the ancient civilisations that dominated the region at the time.

Its clear that the struggle over Storm King played a powerful role in focusing attention on much more than the aesthetic character of the region; that the lasting legacy of this fight has been a sustained and long - lasting effort to clean up the Hudson River.

Getting past the insults and accusations and (ultimately useful) fights over statistical approaches to studying climate trends in regions (or eras) with sparse data, it's clear to me that this is an area where science will out, in the end.

Our team, allies and network of over 50,000 supporters across the region are on the front lines of fights to incentivize clean energy, challenge dirty energy like fracking and coal, and protect communities from the escalating impacts of climate change.

Once the MLS ® is so diluted that anyone can participate and anyone can add / use MLS ® information, it will become so useless that the whole fight will have been over nothing and individual boards / regions will recreate their own systems, protect them from those shore fishers (great analogy Brian) and all will be good again.