Sentences with phrase «hardening of the political battle»
In an interview in La Jolla, Dr. Keeling's widow, Louise, said that if her husband had lived to see the hardening of the political battle lines over climate change, he would have been dismayed.
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His Taye (to revisit that Yoruba twin metaphor), included battle - hardened veterans of the Awolowo political combat of the 1st Republic, that claim a near - divine right to the Awo political franchise.
When the veterans of World War I, on both sides of the political divide, returned from the front in 1918 and 1919, they came back as battle - hardened soldiers.
Strong always lends the battle - hardened New Yorker a certain dignity in her targeted outrage, even as she confesses, «I'm kind of a political junkie — and a regular junkie.»
But Fletcher's soft start should not fool anyone: With his election, he has become one of the region's most formidable political forces, commanding a battle - hardened phalanx of unionists in desperate need of fresh leadership.