Sentences with phrase «much fighting for»

The significance of change is never lost on me, and I often highlight how recent it really is that gay rights have progressed — and also, how it wouldn't actually take much to start chipping away at these much fought for rights.

Not exact matches

The principles the group is fighting for are noble ones, but the tools they employ leave much to be desired.

When customers feel like you're fighting for them, they'll be much more likely to stick around and sing your praises.

Wagner expects the Mayweather - McGregor fight audience to draw a much larger streaming audience for NeuLion's rights holding partners, especially considering that Sky Sports will be the exclusive streaming home for the fight in the U.K. and Ireland (McGregor has a huge following in his home country).

Its architects thought abolishing barriers to commerce and national boundaries could ensure Europe avoided the disastrous wars that it had been fighting, not just in the 20th century but for pretty much all of recorded history.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

Much of the fight for inclusive hiring has focused on battling preconceptions that prevent interesting candidates from getting in the door.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

As John Manley, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and former deputy prime minister, noted in a speech last fall on «Canada's Decade of Opportunity,» much of what the protesters fought for — from higher taxes on the rich to more jobs to reining in of banks — has already been achieved here.

The U.S. is a much bigger market than Canada, so there is more business for the taking — but banks will have to fight for it.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

You don't have to fight your competitors for their audience; working together can often be much more efficient.

«That transformation in how they treated me and how much harder I had to fight to get my ideas adopted, that's when the penny dropped for me.»

Klein narrates: «There's only so much protesting can accomplish... at a certain point, you have to talk about what you're fighting for.»

If disruption theory is correct, Tesla's future holds either acquisition by a much larger incumbent or a years - long and hard - fought battle for market significance.

Primed for economic combat, President Donald Trump set in motion tariffs on as much as $ 60 billion in Chinese imports to the U.S. on Thursday and accused the Chinese of high - tech thievery, picking a fight that could push the global heavyweights into a...

All these sore Core «bcash» name calling IDIOTS are exactly that... IDIOTS, it sickens me so much to see these morons deliberately fight against something that is beneficial for the whole world (people in it), to get rid of the corrupt and utter scam that private central bankers created, surely Blockstream and bankers must have hired these people to spend all day long harassing Bitcoin Cash supporters, putting out and repeating same shit propaganda over and over, so to get unaware people fall for it, and to trick them into thinking that they centralised Lightning network is scaling of Bitcoin... which is complete horse shit, and could not further from the truth.

But unlike in the personal computer or server market, where Intel and AMD fought for dominance (more truthfully, AMD tried to at least achieve profitability), or the smartphone market where Qualcomm has taken out competitors ranging from Texas Instruments and Freescale on the application processor side (leaving Apple, Samsung, Broadcom and Mediatek standing), this market has a much wider variety of players known for their embedded processors and microcontroller.

Then, the crypto influencer argued that Bitcoin will find much growth in demand as individuals fight for their privacy in a world that increasingly embraces surveillance states.

It is much tougher to be concerned about the ideological nature of life when you are fighting in a line to pick up an unemployment check or applying for a job.

If you can get others to recommend you (preferably by other guys in the same bar, fighting for the same women), you'll get noticed much sooner.

Ibrahimova said she was impressed with Kashuv for continuing to fight even though the establishment media were almost exclusively carrying the «really loud» voices of the pro-gun control side but «not so much the conservative side.»

Unfortunately, the fight for Raqqa destroyed much of the city through air strikes or gunfire.

I wont argue that too much seeing how it is ridiculous to argue and fight for the right to be recognized as the «Words Most Hated».

The first Christian abolitionists were a tiny minority, fighting a difficult battle against Christian slavery supporters who could quote twice as much scripture for their position, and still could.

Socially conscious millennials have spent much of their lives fighting for what they believe is right.

Why an Atheist would devote so much time fighting this imaginary god makes me feel that this Atheist has a personal connection with this imaginary god, and that he is sore because this imaginary god did not bail him out when he asked for help.

The fight for marriage equality has been going on for much longer than a year.

And though Satan has already lost the war, he still wants to do as much damage as possible to us, and even to the people who are fighting for him.

we are no longer servants but friends, we are no longer exiles but home builders, we are no longer fighting but farming, we are no longer orphans but family, we are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we are no longer broken but we are mended and healed and whole, we are no longer wanderers but we are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to Love and to grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath of God.

They said they fought not so much for honor or cause or even country as they did for their buddies; not to let the guys down - that was the most important thing in their lives as soldiers.

I was just thinking over the last couple of days that one's integrity speaks for itself and I would much rather be able to hold my head high knowing that I fought for what was right than to have given in to the status quo that harms.

If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation — even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time — how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation?

The concert was sponsored by the Congolese Rally for Democracy, a Rwanda - backed rebel movement than began fighting the government in 1998 and now controls much of the country.

Hanging on to substantial wealth can be justified only if you can accomplish at least as much good by hanging on to it as by giving the whole lot to a relief agency that would use it to fight hunger or to a scholarship fund for the underprivileged or to similar good causes.

Along the Mediterranean coast of Judea lay the Plain of Philistia, for the possession of which much fighting was done.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

(I've been turning down as many as half a dozen television interviews per day, because they take so much time in traveling to studios, and mainly because most of them provide an opportunity for no more than a few sound bites and a food fight.)

As the BBC notes, the rise of ISIS — as well as the airstrikes and fighting to combat the Islamic militant group — is responsible for much of the uptick in violence.

The political in - fighting, constant pleas for more offerings, and competition with other churches was all too much.

And, having devoted much of my time at Princeton to fighting for free speech, I am glad to see you, my friends, exercising your First Amendment rights and voicing your dissent.

I don't care much for religion / non-religion fights.

dcsloan... as much as I disagree with him, if someone were trying to stop Steve from expressing his belief, I would be one of the first to fight for his right to do so.

At this point, any measure of attention given to these clowns is too much, but famed hacking collective Anonymous — who has picked fights with Westboro in the past — apparently decided enough was enough, and used their considerable Internet savvy to leaked the personal information of the members of Westboro's congregation online for anyone to see, write, call or even pay a visit to.

If it weren't for religion, we probably wouldn't have so much fighting in the Middle East or on our own soil.

Why fight against god when he offers so much for so little.

More than likely, there's a lot of talk about loving each other, but not much about fighting against sin or fighting for each other.

All I feel is sadness that when he meets God he'll see how much of his life (zoe) was wasted fighting for the wrong cause.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

(Much of the plot centers around dog fighting, for example.)