Sentences with phrase «years fought bitterly»

There were many others who resisted and for 100 years fought bitterly against integration.

Not exact matches

The two fought bitterly last year when the governor leaned on the city to cough up several billion more to finance the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which resulted in Mr. de Blasio capitulating to take an additional $ 2.5 billion for the transit system onto the city's ledgers.

The Democratic nominee in last year's bitterly fought White House race addressed a technology conference in California, speaking at length about what she termed a Moscow - led campaign of «disinformation» against her that influenced the vote.

«This is shaping up to be the biggest, most bitterly fought confirmation battle in 30 years.

But the goodwill only goes so far - Baez was / is a close ally of former party boss Jose Rivera, whom Heastie defeated in what was a bitterly contested leadership fight late last year (and one that's still being played out in an appeals court).

1,000 years before the game begins, these two people and their respective followers fought bitterly against each other.

For the last several years, the public discourse on this momentous, multi-layered economic and environmental issue has largely been shaped from the edges — by vocal and histrionic campaigners seeking a blanket ban on the process and industry groups and property owners resisting regulation and bitterly fighting any talk of a ban.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).