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In the past, Virginia "fought against desegregation ... fought against interracial marriage ... fought against women's right to vote," said Jennifer Carroll Foy, chief patron of the House ratification resolution who is also a member of the black caucus and one of the first women admitted to the historically all-male Virginia Military Institute.
The mayor fought against releasing the video of McDonald's murder.
She fought against proliferation when she was secretary of state.
The UGTT has fought against attempts to cut government spending.
"I always fought against pink since diagnosis," she tells Refinery29.
Private stakeholders fought against a more robust postal banking system.
He fought against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's arbitration rule.
Republicans fought against them, but perhaps their will was lacking.
" Still, he insisted: "I never fought against the new government.
Last month, Russian mercenaries fought against US forces in Syria.
He's still going after US allies that fought against ISIS.
Because, this surely seems like everything that he fought against.
Musk has also famously fought against Tesla employees' efforts to unionize.
During the Battle of Aleppo, they fought against anti-Assad rebels.
Shelley had fought against Milton, Whitman against Emerson, Mailer againt Hemingway.
So we fought against it at the level of the Judicial.
And I fought against the world to establish my musical career.
Heyer's co-worker Marissa Blair said her friend fought against bigotry.
Again, Naimi fought against the idea as the companies became "greedy".
Auto companies have fought against tighter fuel economy standards for decades.
A peripatetic lawyer and activist, Peter Pattakos, fought against the tax.
Because they have fought against gun safety for so many years.
"I think I would really have fought against that," Couric added.
Locals who fought against the deluge of trash have been attacked.
But American business leaders fought against government interference in their affairs.
Governments do not usually honor those who have fought against them.
We have fought against and successfully stopped these laws in states before.
There is a full-scale war being fought against "for-profit" colleges.
Most of all, it fought against the current of ever-bigger displays.
Drug companies have fought against proposals to allow drug importation for decades.
The company fought against the recall, maintaining its product was not defective.
"But thank goodness, my mom fought against the school system," Patton recalls.
"I fought against a dictatorship and I never believed that history would repeat itself on account of those who also fought against that same dictatorship," said the letter, attributed to Judge Rafael Solís Cerda, who stepped down Thursday.
The pair had fought against testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, where Rep.
That's a shame, and it's something that should be identified and fought against.
In fact, this is similar to the 1996 bill that Ryan fought against.
We fought against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and rightfully so.
Nicolai fought against the getaway and ultimately a judge sided with the father.
I&aposve been a victim of it and now -- I fought against it.
He also fought against the tariffs, a battle he was destined to lose.
Black people have fought against slavery since we first landed on this continent.
Big Tech fought against the bill — then folded, Axios' David McCabe has reported.
Hellerstedt, a challenge to the abortion restrictions that you filibustered and fought against.
In one lawsuit, the trusts fought against releasing a single piece of paper.
LONDON — Alexander Hamilton is standing tall in the country he famously fought against.
This isn't the first time a streaming service has fought against the networks.
By that logic, there was blame on both sides when America fought against German fascism; there was blame on both sides when the American North fought against the American South; there was blame on both sides when America fought for its independence from Britain, when black people rebelled against American slavery, when Native Americans fought against their colonial decimation and when women fought and now fight against their attackers.
He was portrayed as a noble, humble man who reluctantly fought against the Union.
In Seattle, Uber has actively fought against efforts by the Teamsters to organize drivers.
In our industry, the only person who's really ever fought against it is me.
It fought against the Clean Power Plan just as fiercely as any conservative state.
Some in the telecom industry have long fought against tough regulation from the FTC.
Read more: 'Stranger Things 3' stars fought against Steve and Robin becoming a couple
From before the nation's independence, Americans fought against special tax privileges for big business.
In particular, supporters of the underlying bill have fought against an amendment from Sen.
The decision was a defeat for the energy giant, which had fought against it.
He claims that when he was 11, he fought against the regime of Col.
In another, he fought against his close allies (and cousins) the Beltrán-Leyva brothers.
The Obamas have long pushed for increased voter participation and fought against partisan gerrymandering.
Since 2011, rebel forces have fought against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
His grandfather fought against British colonialists and was imprisoned for sedition against the queen.
The Palm Springs socialite was Frank Sinatra's fourth wife and fought against child abuse.
He struggled and fought against himself and also against the standards of his time.
Eastland described black people as inferior and fought against efforts to desegregate the South.
Why is it important that we fought against poll taxes and all this stuff?
Fada'am trained as a soldier in Iran and fought against Islamic State in Iraq.
"He says we got nothing left to lose, so we might as well support somebody who has fought against Civil Rights, and fought against equality, and who has shown no regard for working people for most of his life," Obama said to cheers.
The abolitionist writer William Lloyd Garrison fought against slavery from a house on this hill.
The harder I fought against it, the more motherhood seemed to close in on me.
Reinvigorated, Iraq's army has won every battle it has fought against IS since March 2000.
Republicans have consistently fought against importing drugs from other countries, citing health and safety concerns.
From John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, the Presidents of the USA fought against it.
"This issue is one of the most important things we've ever fought against," he said.
Other anti-government groups have also emerged, some of which have fought against each other.
It didn't matter that she had a lot of opposition, she fought against the injustice.
Remember, Lucifer fought against God for justice, even though he knew was going to lose.
As a senator, he fought against comprehensive overhaul like the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.
It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws.
My messenger boy asked me why I fought against the Americans but didn't kill them.
"Everyone who should believe in free speech fought against it or ran away," she said.
The RNC technically belongs to Trump, but it still represents the establishment he fought against.
They have fought against both federal legislation and federal safety standards to mandate such technology.
They have fought against both federal legislation and federal safety standards to mandate such technology.
Like Jim White, Vinnie had fought against the North Vietnamese regulars and was tactically sharp.
Ties to 2016: Plouffe has endorsed Hillary Clinton, whom he fought against in the 2008 primaries.
"We have an agreement with them," said Shabaan, who fought against ISIS's predecessors a decade ago.
But more critically, Trump and his administration have aggressively rolled back and fought against LGBT rights.
Conservatives opposed ending slavery and fought against the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery.
Like that of his grandfather, Johannes, who fought against the British in the Anglo-Boer war.
There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference.
Milano previously fought against the bills by calling for women to go on a sex strike.
President Trump is listening far too much to the foreign policy swamp that he fought against.
In 2017, telecommunications providers fought against a state broadband privacy bill, which the Legislature never passed.
Iran fought against both of these demands in the negotiations that led to the 2015 deal.
Wronged parents have faced financial ruin or lost jobs when they fought against Child Protective Services.
He first traveled to Somalia in 2005 and fought against Ethiopian forces there, the authorities said.
While in Somalia, he fought against Ethiopian forces and later joined al-Shabaab, the release said.
My logic ran: America was good, the Confederacy fought against America, so the Confederacy was bad.
How long and how hard the Obama EPA fought against imposing CO2 standards for these plants.
The Starks, the Lannisters, and Renly and Stannis Baratheon all ultimately fought against the Targaryen dynasty.
Then dockless bikes, which cities fought against because they can be messy and threaten public bikeshare systems.
As she fought against that bill, year after year, Warren directly called out Biden on numerous occasions.
Some were veterans of the war against the Russians, two had fought against the Taliban as well.
He was willing to fight for the big ideas even when the party leaders fought against them.
But Allison knows she's fought against her size at least since age 6, after she was molested.
Sekulow fought against the "Ground Zero Mosque" and during that effort Trump offered to buy the site.
He said his uncle died in Quneitra in 2014 when he fought against the advancing armed opposition.
I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer is out this Friday on Thrill Jockey.
All the foreign powers oppose Islamic State, but their Syrian proxies have mainly fought against one another.
These are exactly the kinds of policy outcomes Franken fought against years before he became a politician.
The decision came even as Yahoo had previously fought against such government requests that violated user privacy.
In the 1980s, Weinstein fought against attempts to quarantine AIDS patients and founded the AIDS Hospice Foundation.
The GOP has for years fought against the law, with House Republicans voting in 2017 for repeal.
For Afghans, whose ancestors fought against imperialism just as Americans did, that is a recipe for outrage.
Syrian rebel groups which have fought against Assad since 2011 hold pockets of territory in western Syria.
But the second and third rounds were largely a static war of attrition fought against the cage.
Doctors groups have long fought against any kind of federal rules on treating or prescribing for pain.
Kurdish forces in the north fought against the government of Mr. Assad, Turkey and other rebel groups.
This came as a shock to many, including Democratic legislators who fought against the program-killing language.
They have also fought against a cynicism about protest movements that has pervaded political discourse for years.
They divorced, and she married Luigi Galletti, a doctor who had fought against the Fascists in Italy.
It's a position Biden maintained as Barack Obama's vice president — and that Sanders and Warren fought against.
He was one of the Mujahedeen who fought against Soviet troops in Afghanistan, as was bin Laden.
"My grandfather is Jewish, he fought against the Germans, escaped through the Polish underground," Mr. Wintrich said.
This is why so many people who have fought against oppression, colonialism and apartheid stand with us.
But a group Ms. DeVos created, the Great Lakes Education Project, fought against the bill and won.
The Trump administration, like the Obama administration, initially fought against the release of White House visitor logs.
She fought against time to write her life story, but she will never see her dream realized.
In the state legislature, Neville has fought against tougher gun restrictions, including the state's red flag law.
In the second hearing, they fought against a bill to repeal the current ban on high-capacity magazines.
Generations ago, civil rights attorneys fought against segregation, and to secure rights denied to African Americans, Stewart said.
The funeral was for a member of the Sahwa -- Sunni tribal forces that have fought against al Qaeda.
Refrigeration had been fought against; margarine had been coloured pink, by law, so that consumers could reject it.
Airlines have successfully fought against what they call overly burdensome regulations that could have negative effects on travelers.
Comcast and other providers have long fought against the cord-cutting effect of Netflix and other streaming services.
But keeping the name will be a permanent offense to everyone who has experienced and fought against discrimination.
"President Trump is listening far too much to the foreign policy swamp that he fought against," Paul wrote.
He fought against the US-backed contras during the 1980s and has remained a key ally to Venezuela.
ISIS revealed few details of its new leader, and only claimed that he previously fought against Western forces.
Shoutout to the white allies who stood up and saw injustice and fought against it challenging the police.
"Muslim women have fought against tremendous hardships and threats on their way to the court," said the letter.
AP7 said ExxonMobil, Westar, Southern Corp and Entergy had fought against introducing climate legislation in the United States.
The United States fought against the North during the Korean War and has no diplomatic ties with it.
He fought against mob violence but believed in revolutionary violence for self-defense and the destruction of slavery.
"Our two nations have fought against all odds when those surrounding us wanted to destroy us," he said.
The Texas State Teachers Association, which fought against the cuts, said the decision was shallow and undermines students.
Pollara manages United for Care, a group backing the medical marijuana initiative that Wasserman Schultz has fought against.
They fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the eighties and the Serbs in Bosnia in the nineties.
Nancy Vann, a retired Wall Street lawyer who lives in Peekskill, has fought against Indian Point for years.
The museum initially fought against seniority step raises, but the union fought for its inclusion and eventually won.
Schrems, an Austrian law student, successfully fought against the EU's previous privacy rules called Safe Harbour in 2015.
Local residents fought against Kapoor's proposed design, arguing that the architectural extension would block natural light to their properties.
Heavily bearded and heavily armored, Jack has come to rely on the machinery and weapons he once fought against.
Torres' ex-husband fought against it, and the family court judge, Ronee Korbin Steiner, eventually ruled in his favor.
And they have fought against expanding sick leave in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and New Mexico.
His mother was returned to the United States within days, but Couch initially fought against deportation in Mexican courts.
Johnson, along with Rivera, joined the GLF and, along with STAR, fought against anti-LGBTQ laws and social inequality.
For example, in World War II countries within Europe fought against one another, and it greatly hurt the continent.
Their new record, I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer, deepens their grim outlook even further.
But record labels have historically fought against unofficial mixes because they considered them piracy since they weren't getting paid.
In 213, Allred successfully fought against Los Angeles County's practice of shackling pregnant female prisoners during labor and childbirth.
She has also fought against racial profiling and passed measures to help low-income Texans pay their utility bills.
I fought against closing my eyes and sinking into it, still hopeful for a miraculous break in the clouds.
Dairy farmers fought against the tougher rules and argued at the time it would increase costs of doing business.
"He has fought against activist judges who have sought to remove God from the Pledge of Allegiance," it said.
Technology firms like Google, Microsoft and others have fought against the government's demands for its users' data in court.
Sororities, at least the traditional ones, were precisely the kind of classist, exclusionary groups that feminists fought against. Right?
Previous protests have been sparked by pension problems suffered by some demobilized soldiers who fought against Vietnam in 1979.
Denmark's former centre-right government fought against an EU-wide digital tax, citing the likely loss of tax revenues.
Benghazi was at the time the stronghold of forces that had fought against Libya's longtime authoritarian leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
They also fought against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, at times in close proximity to American forces.
Another way is to say she fought against the forced separation and destruction of black families by the state.
Urquía fought against the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the La Paz region, COPINH said in a statement.
When Jackson died in 2009, he had fought against multiple allegations of child sexual abuse for over 15 years.
All of this can and should be fought against, but it doesn't require a total eradication of the products.
Several wars were fought against Europe, between 1776 and 1812, and we need no reminder here of the outcomes.
The Russian-Georgian victim, known as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was a former Chechen rebel who had fought against Russian forces.
Denmark's former centre-right government fought against an EU-wide digital tax, citing the likely loss of tax revenues.
Ukraine has fought against pro-Russia separatists for more than five years, after Russian troops invaded the Crimean peninsula.
I fought against what was blanketing me like a huge sleep, but my body just got heavier and heavier.
In South America, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have fought against Bogotá for more than fifty years.
Parts of the coalition oppose President Bashar Assad but have also fought against other rebels and the Western-backed opposition.
The leagues had fought against the push to legalize sports betting, fearing an erosion in the integrity of their sports.
The place where everybody knows your name because they've probably fought against you at some point in this long saga.
In challenging Clinton, Sanders also fought against the establishment — and the Parkland activists probably see Sanders as a natural ally.
Khatallah fought against the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Robinson said, an effort that was backed by the United States.
"I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track," the Daily Record quotes her as saying.
Flood — having fought against independent counsel Ken Starr in the 1990s — didn't like the independent counsel provision, the person said.
Government watchdogs, members of Congress, and the ACLU have vehemently fought against the program, claiming it lacks grounding in science.
And she fought against a mindset that if something was geared towards women or girls, that it was less valuable.
In focusing on this threat he presaged the phenomenon of Xi Jinping, who has fought against graft with unprecedented zeal.
There's been a change on the other side too though: "The man" who Gen Xers fought against has evolved, too.
Charlottesville was also one of the first protests in recent memory where white nationalists physically fought against law enforcement orders.
Overall, the show unfortunately falls into the very object fetishization Dada fought against with performances, collage, writing, and concrete poetry.
The Air Force this morning used a viral internet meme to promote how it fought against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
He later served with the South Korean army and fought against North Korea forces when war broke out in 1950.
Democrats once were the party that fought against the misuse of secret classification laws by the FBI and other agencies.
Professional women have long fought against the stereotype that they're more emotional than their male counterparts, or even emotionally unstable.
She has always been outspoken when she has received hate before, having previously fought against Twitter trolls and body shammers.
The idea of a financial transaction tax isn't new, and the financial industry has fought against the idea for years.
Katyal introduced Gorsuch during his confirmation hearing and his endorsement infuriated some of his fellow Democrats who fought against Gorsuch.
Throughout the game, I liberated outposts and fought against Mickey and Lou, killing hundreds of bad guys in the process.
Sunnis revere Aisha, but Shiites revile her as a traitor who fought against Ali, the foundational figure of Shiite tradition.
Among other things, they fought against the 2009 cap-and-trade bill and lobbied against Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Most of my generation of South Carolinians had the privilege of attending the integrated schools that Uncle Roddy fought against.
He also fought against the president's plan to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David to discuss an Afghanistan peace plan.
As it turns out, Superman's grandfather, Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), fought against those forces generations before Kal-El was born.
Conservatives who fought against nationalization of constitutional rights may benefit from it now that the court is on their side.
Feinstein has pushed to make encryption and security more accessible to law enforcement, which tech companies have aggressively fought against.
Matt previously worked at Google for 17 years, where I knew him, where he led the team that fought against spam.
We spoke with Crowder -- who's fought against beasts like Curtis Blaydes and Justin Willis -- and he spelled it out for us.
Mahsud also fought against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and took part in TTP attacks against Pakistani security forces.
Shares of health insurers, which had fought against the bill's proposed repeal of the mandate that Americans obtain insurance, were up.
But Apple has actively fought against laws that would require it to provide a way for users to repair their devices.
He says he was "shocked" at how hard the federal government fought against compensating residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador.
She was born in 1947 and in her youth, Rousseff was a Marxist guerrilla who fought against Brazil's brutal military dictatorship.
His hero was José Martí, a Cuban patriot who fought against Spain but was wisely wary of American covetousness towards Cuba.
French authorities have fought against the statue for a decade – arguing that the cross violates French laws separating church and state.
Long before Trump showed up, the GOP had consistently fought against the advancement of women in almost every aspect of society.
Jurado, like other Mexican actresses, fought against stereotyping in the American film industry, much of which typecast Mexican women as seductresses.
He fought against white rule in the 1970s, in what was then called Rhodesia, and legitimately won an election in 1980.
They've fought against subsidies, bailouts, and other forms of "crony capitalism" that benefit the few at the expense of the masses.
He is said to have lived in a time of great darkness that he fought against with his magical sword, Lightbringer.
In the 1980s Ronald Reagan fought against broadening the scope of CFIUS to include "essential commerce" as well as "national security".
Earlier this year, Apple fought against a government order to help hack the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
Schaeuble added he had already fought against "some exaggerations" in Germany's asylum law when he was interior minister in the 1990s.
In the 211s, queer journalist Helen Zia fought against anti-Asian violence in the wake of the murder of Vincent Chin.
McConnell fought against many of former Democratic President Barack Obama's legislative initiatives when Republicans were the minority party in the Senate.
Environmentalists on Tuesday vowed to remobilize the legal and grassroots forces that originally fought against the pipelines during the Obama administration.
In the 1970s, a group of admirals openly fought against the attempt of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt to fully integrate the Navy.
Preliminary reports indicate it misfired in both fatal crashes, with pilots losing control of the planes as they fought against it.
The story of how advocates fought against long odds to pass the landmark legislation was as captivating as any political thriller.
This is all happening in Indiana, with a governor, Mike Pence, who has long fought against any reasonable restrictions on guns.
During his time in Congress, Michel fought against President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society reforms, yet consistently sought cooperation with the Democrats.
President Eisenhower was particularly hostile to Israel during the 1956 Suez War, which Israel, the UK, and France fought against Egypt.
To the Editor: In 2010, Republicans raised the wholly false specter of "death panels" as they fought against enactment of Obamacare.
Throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy — where people have been rounded up simply for what they read.
One of the greatest was a Republican, George Romney, who, as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, fought against suburban exclusion.
With the slogan, "It's forbidden to forbid," the movement rebelled against authority and fought against imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism and homophobia.
Qassim Suleimani and the deputy chief of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, the armed groups that have fought against the Islamic State.
The show really fought against how Latinos were portrayed at the time, in this one-dimensional stereotype of overly exaggerated criminal.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office and School Board fought against the video's release due to their active investigations into the shooting.
The old-school Mujahideen strongman fought against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s and kept fighting well into the next millennium.
In an America still struggling with the aftermath of the Depression, Superman fought against profiteers and capitalists on behalf of workers.
Anarchists, syndicalists and a specifically Jewish leftist group, the Bundists, all competed with, fought against and sometimes allied with one another.
Transgender people were allowed then to start enlisting in January 2018, while the Trump administration fought against nationwide injunctions on the ban.
Three indigenous activists who fought against Los Encinos dam were killed, "their bodies dismembered and showing signs of torture," Global Witness said.
But because of the sheer numbers of wars, battles, and scrimmages every single person in Winterfell has fought against the Stark family.
For 30 years, women in Sudan have fought against this oppression, so it's no surprise they are out in significant numbers now.
Hospitals have long fought against price-setting and raised the political threat of rural hospitals across the US being forced to close.
Jamie Metzl: We have always fought against the inherent cruelty of natural selection, one of the two essential pillars of Darwinian evolution.
In 2008 its militiamen briefly took over the capital, Beirut, and thousands of its fighters have fought against Sunni rebels in Syria.
In the days after the second election protesters fought against police in Mr Odinga's strongholds in western Kenya and Nairobi, the capital.
They could have it running within two months, raising the stakes for pipeline opponents who have fought against it since last summer.
Jabotinsky, the pioneer of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, was a staunch nationalist who fought against the British mandate in Palestine.
Prosecuting attorneys for the federal government have strongly opposed those arguments, and for weeks fought against the appointment of a special master.
It notched a win for activist investors who fought against the deal for months on the grounds it would destroy shareholder value.
Still, I cannot help but notice that even feminists who have fought against harassment for decades are part of the backlash machine.
In the second to last episode, Ghost fought against a literal army of zombies without any fear in his beautiful beast heart.
It has never opened the archives from the period, and actively fought against Memorial as the group tried to catalog the victims.
Clinging to a tree branch in torrential rain and howling winds, Ruaridh Connellan fought against the ferocious current of Houston's Greens Bayou.
Past and Present The route is an indictment of the cruelty of racism and a commemoration of those who fought against it.
The Republican National Committee has long fought against this provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law passed by Congress in 2002.
She also says that Hadden's legal team fought against her being able to stay anonymous in order to try to intimidate her.
Some factions who fought against the jihadists under a different banner have now fled to an area under greater Turkish influence nearby.
It is commonly understood that an American withdrawal from Syria could be disastrous for our Syrian Kurdish allies who fought against ISIS.
Harris previously defended the death penalty, despite being personally opposed to it, and fought against legislation requiring investigations into police-involved shootings.
We have fought against imperialism, slavery and colonialism, although leftovers from all those have helped create the world as we know it.
The life summoned here is a rapidly tarnishing illusion, built on crumbling values that Willy has fought against himself to believe in.
You've played religious leaders before: The High Sparrow in 'Game of Thrones,' even Martin Luther, who famously fought against the Catholic Church.
Butte County and environmental groups have fought against a re-licensing of the dam for more than a decade, legal documents show.
Adelson put more than $85033 million into a committee in Florida in 2014 that successfully fought against legalizing marijuana for medical use.
Judge Starr "has fervently fought against equal rights for members of the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender individuals," the recusal motion said.
But some of the President's domestic policy aides, who have the upper hand on the issue, have fought against any such move.
Trump's deja vu-inspiring move comes on the heels of reports that Trump fought against certifying Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement.
By continuing to create her works of artivism, Becerra hopes to preserve the stories of figures who fought against marginalization and discrimination.
The US is also allied with Syrian rebels fighting Assad and Islamic State but who have also fought against the Syrian Kurds.
Once Rothko started painting, he continually fought against a system he found to be opinionated for all the wrong — art market — reasons.
Government forces and the Saudi-led coalition also have fought against AQAP and ISIS, both of which are anti-government Sunni terror groups.
They have fought against the Yemeni government since 2004, including the current US and Saudi supported government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
"We were the little guy that fought against the big state of Texas and we won," she said in an interview last week.
In some cases, Guard fighters and their Shi'ite proxies have fought against Sunni groups directly supported by Saudi Arabia in Syria and Iraq.
During the Soviet-Afghan War he fought against the Afghan Mujahideen, and lost a leg defending the eastern city of Jalalabad in 1988.
At first, York called himself Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle, the leader of a lost Native American tribe that fought against early European colonization.
Yet the two companies have fought against efforts by regulators to require more stringent, fingerprint-based checks for drivers on ride-hailing platforms.
Sadr was the first to form a Shi'ite militia that fought against U.S. troops after the liberation of Iraq turned into an occupation.
Religious groups and disability rights activists fought against the law and tried unsuccessfully to get a referendum on the ballot to overturn it.
That said, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has fought against Trump on war powers already once this year — over the war in Yemen.
And the Wall Streeters began to dominate the administration and have moved [Trump's] agenda back to everything he fought against in the election.
It's particularly notable that the battle has come to California because many of the companies that have fought against it are headquartered there.
Last month the army killed a popular militant who fought against Indian rule, sparking ongoing protests that have claimed more than 60 lives.
I fought against this initiative because it openly rewarded illegal immigration and undermined the hard work of those who entered our country lawfully.
Unsurprisingly, Big Tech companies have fought against any loss of control that an American right-to-be-forgotten law might impose on them.
The Post notes that Sadr, a staunch critic of Washington, had commanded a militia that fought against American troops during the Iraq war.
"They've fought against federal fuel economy regulations for 40 years," said David Cooke, a senior vehicles analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Mr. Gott worked within the system, but others like the singer and activist Marta Kubisova fought against it and were banned from performing.
Rival groups of militant youth known as Red Guards fought against one another and against perceived "class enemies," including intellectuals, officials and others.
As a professor in the 1990s, she served on a federal bankruptcy commission and fought against legal changes that favored banks over borrowers.
Starting in the 1970s, rural children migrated in droves to big cities to attend universities, where they fought against military dictatorship for democracy.
During its civil war, fought against separatists from the Tamil minority, Sinhalese felt outnumbered because of the large Tamil community in nearby India.
Mr. Trump described Jackson's presidency as a model for his own, portraying Jackson as a populist hero who had fought against government corruption.
She must be one of those Republicans who fought against Trump's election and has refused to acknowledge that he is even President, right?
The last hope of the West might be Germany, the country that Michael Howard fought against and that I hated as a child.
As part of the international coalition, Turkey has fought against ISIS and cooperated with its allies in stopping, arresting and eliminating ISIS terrorists.
Doug Ducey, a Republican who has fought against raising taxes despite signing legislation in May to raise teacher pay, ending the Arizona walkout.
In cities where hospitals have fought against their employees who want to stick together in a union, hospital jobs are not good jobs.
And the Wall Streeters began to dominate the administration and have moved his agenda back to everything he fought against in the election.
Assuming this final image is deployed intentionally, it might be most hopefully interpreted as a warning: Don't become the thing you've fought against.
I've fought against that as a senator, I stood up against it as secretary of state, Donald has bought Chinese steel and aluminum.
Instead of the record companies putting their arm around him and saying, "Come with us, young man," they fought against it and lost.
He fought against the loosening of rules prohibiting a single corporation from owning television and radio stations and newspapers in the same broadcast market.
Haley fought against what she called anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, and sometimes seemed to be channeling Trump's abrasive style of diplomacy.
"He fought against the United Nations, the world court and the United States of America itself to defend Texas' sovereignty," Abbott said to cheers.
Trump's lawyers had fought against the release of the excerpts, saying they would be exploited by the media and others during the presidential campaign.
"They both fought against the most perverse threats to their environment in a country rife with socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations," Kennedy said.
Edward Glossop, Latin America economist for Capital Economics, predicted even higher inflation in a country that has fought against chronic rising prices for decades.
Schumer has passionately fought against Trump's agenda, launched the "Make America Sick Again" campaign, while Trump mocked the Democratic Senator for shedding "fake tears."
It even got Sony to relent and allow PlayStation 270 players to play with users on other platforms—something Sony fought against for years.
Helmand province is where thousands of British and U.S. troops fought against the resurgent Taliban before their official withdrawal at the end of 2014.
"For the entirety of my career, I have fought against the powerful — powerful people and powerful corporations," Avenatti told reporters when he was released.
No more than 9,000 of these soldiers actually fought against the Raj in Japan's ill-fated invasion of India in 1944, Mr Raghavan notes.
William H. Schaap, a radical lawyer, author and publisher who fought against investigative abuses by government agencies at home and abroad, died on Feb.
The LGBTQ community celebrates Pride to commemorate June 28, 1969, when bar-goers at the Stonewall Inn fought against homophobic and transphobic police harassment.
As a congressman, he fought against funding Planned Parenthood, and as governor of Indiana, he signed a law preventing abortions based on fetal abnormalities.
For those two presidents, pardoning represented a technique of transitional justice, reintegrating rebels who had fought against the federal government while acknowledging their defeat.
At least eight actively fought against legalizing gay marriage, and at least as many argued for immigration positions now embraced by the Trump administration.
Ms. Wali often criticized the United States for supporting the guerrillas who had fought against the Soviet takeover and then morphed into the Taliban.
The character was captain of the Logos hovercraft and was one of the rebels who fought against the machines as they infiltrated Zion. 4.
He was brought in because of Flynn but he became the biggest cheerleader for the McMaster faction that fought against implementing the president's policies.
Perhaps concerned that her legacy might endure as political rather than musical, Beach downplayed the sexism that she had fought against throughout her career.
Connecticut and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (which represented parties who joined the lawsuit as defendants) fought against Robinson and other parents.
Steve Patton fought against the release of the video showing the 2014 police shooting Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, when he was city attorney.
He thinks they're cancer-causing bird killers that drive down property values, and he fought against putting them within sight of his golf course.
Still, Republicans are largely opposed to municipalities building out their own broadband offerings and have fought against local efforts in places like Chattanooga, Tenn.
But the FCC has consistently fought against FOIA requests for server, API, email, IP address, and other data that could help identify the culprit.
I fought against this permanent rollback in the House of Representatives, but Republicans charged forward, with President Trump and the FCC cheering them on.
In keeping with their sign against calorie-count discussion, Bloodroot, in its food, has always fought against the health-food ideology that plagues vegetarian cooking.
The 34-year-old was featured on Sunday night's "Money in the Bank" pay-per-view show, where he fought against fellow wrestler Braun Strowman.
But public access advocates and journalists have put Trump on watch, after he blacklisted reporters -- something Pence said he fought against after joining the ticket.
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have fought against Islamic State militants in Iraq as part of their support for the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad.
Skinheads wore Fred Perry polos, Doc Martens, suspenders, and buzz-cuts; later, this exact style was copied by the same neo-Nazis they fought against.
But those who've fought against and lived under the Taliban believe a US troop withdrawal today would come at the expense of Afghan peace tomorrow.
" Ching Ching explained it in her own words: "Because before our brothers and sisters, in order to protect their younger siblings, fought against bad people.
From ally to terrorist After the US helped overthrow the Taliban in 2001, Hekmatyar fought against the US military and the Western-backed Afghan government.
The monument is meant to confront Denmark's dark colonial past and its impact on the Caribbean, as well as commemorate those who fought against slavery.
The state's legislature passed a resolution denouncing the "corrective" surgeries, a landmark decision celebrated by advocates who have fought against this medical practice for decades.
It must continue to be fought against and to be rejected, just as it rejects the right of Israel to live in peace and security.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton reportedly confronted her Pakistani counterparts with intelligence linking the ISI to insurgents who fought against U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Cubans who fought against Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship in the 1950s and risked their lives in that undertaking by and large remained attached to the revolution.
"Before us, these anti-slavery organizations were elite-led, a few people who fought against slavery by using the voice of the media," Abeid says.
Wars are fought against ornery aliens, upper-class snobs keep others as indentured slaves, and trained assassins murder people and fashion their bones into furniture.
Over the last year, people with disabilities have fought against attacks on their health care, civil rights, and supports that make inclusion in society possible.
In a historical aside, paprika wasn't brought to Hungary until a century or so after Vlad's day, by the very Turks that he fought against.
He attributes that shift to then-President Charles de Gaulle's denunciation of Israel's entry into that war, which was fought against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
In the streets, some named after Cape Verdean islands, graffiti paintings honor the country's heroes, such as Amilcar Cabral, who fought against Portuguese colonial rule.
In the 1980s, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Saudi government (along with the US) aggressively funded Arab volunteers who fought against the Soviets.
Moluccan and Ambonese soldiers were conscripted as professional soldiers by the Dutch, where they fought against the indigenous Indonesian armies battling for the country's independence.
Democrats and liberal activists oppose him, saying he fought against the legalization of same-sex marriage and supported efforts to make it harder to vote.
But that consolidation was exactly what Mr. Gentilhomme had fought against, as he was pushed from a regrouping of 11 villages into one of 26.
She even recently fought against her staff's insistence on having a rope line at campaign events because she wanted to be closer to the voters.
But the Kurdish leaders had fought against Saddam Hussein alongside Mr. Abdul Mahdi, who at the time was a senior member of the Iraqi opposition.
I find it frightening that Trump gives his fascist/racist speech at a monument commemorating those who fought against the Nazis in the Warsaw Uprising.
"I am a free-markets guy and have fought against the idea that just because something is big it is necessarily bad," Mr. Collins said.
Critic Consensus: A heartbreaking and inspiring look at the people who fought against fear and ignorance to help protect patients during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. 
Tuesday morning, it released a plan to roll back sections of the 2005 bankruptcy bill that Biden championed and Warren fought against at the time.
The militant group fought against British rule in Northern Ireland in a conflict in which some 3,600 people were killed before a 1998 peace deal.
"Shafiq fought against those elements who challenged the writ of State and were involved in target killings of innocent people and security forces," he said.
Republican governors like Brian Sandoval of Nevada and John Kasich of Ohio have fought against the bill, partly because of its rollback of Medicaid expansion.
But as attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt didn't respect rule of law, and fought against regulations that under his stated criteria, he should have supported.
It took six years for him to get sober that first time; he fought against the reality that survival meant he could not drink at all.
The MRFF is a militant organization that has fought against Nativity scenes, Bible studies and any outward expressions of the Christian faith on U.S. military installations.
Utopias are always harder to tell stories about than dystopias, because dystopias can be fought against while utopias invite us to sink into their comforting excesses.
It's all starting with a complete scrubbing of any mention of The Darkness, the ominous yet vague unifying force players fought against in the first game.
Turkey, which has fought against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, is supporting Syrian insurgents in a separate push against Islamic State further west of Manbij.
According to the report, Glover's wife fought against being put into the back seat of a patrol car and damaged the door by repeatedly kicking it.
Demobilized soldiers who protested have included some who fought against Vietnam in 1979 - China's last major foreign military engagement - and complained about problems with their pensions.
Here he fought against a group of Neo Nazis threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon and start an all-out war between the USA and Russia.
It fought against the decriminalization of gay sex in Texas and has supported efforts to make gay sex punishable with prison time in Jamaica and Belize.
Critics immediately accused Trump of attempting to make an end-run around Congress to unilaterally appropriate government money for the wall, which Democrats have fought against.
In private, according to women's accounts, he was doing exactly what he fought against, hurting women and abusing his authority to keep them quiet about it.
In 2007, Yahoo fought against the NSA's PRISM program, the classified program on tapping user data that also included companies like Google Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.
The former governor of Georgia has historically pushed for looser regulations in agribusiness, fought against the enforcement of environmental initiatives, and expressed skepticism toward climate change.
The CFPB has also fought against bad practices, including by recovering $480 million for students at for-profit chains who were deceived into taking predatory loans.
Florida tomato producers contend the deal has allowed Mexico to flood the U.S. with cheap imports, while U.S. dairy farmers have fought against Canadian import tariffs.
There's also Julian McMahon, a barrister who fought against the death penalty, representing Bali Nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, who were executed in 2015.
It must be hard to be called a bigot when you have fought against male supremacy in your actions and in your heart throughout your life.
Questions are likely to come from Feinstein, the panel's ranking member, who said Friday that Kavanaugh had fought against common-sense measures to stem gun violence.
Gone is the call for economic justice by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who fought against the oppression of the poor as well as structural racism.
Electronic-medical-record companies have fought against opening up their systems this way because of the loss of control (and potential revenue) doing so would entail.
But for the next 32 years, they fought against her claim in court — yet their own deep pockets couldn't purchase proof one way or the other.
It isn't just celebrating who we are today, but honoring the queer, trans and LGBTQ people of color before us who fought against oppression and erasure.
About 45 Komodo dragons, a large species of lizards only found in eastern Indonesia, died in battles they fought against each other in their overcrowded cage.
In 2016, the X-Men were squaring off against the Inhumans and a terrible disease-spreading mist; in 2012, the X-Men fought against the Avengers.
Mr. Kadyrov's father, Akmad, fought against Moscow in the 1990s but later allied with President Vladimir V. Putin, who appointed him to run Chechnya in 2000.
They met in the mid-2000s, people who know Ohr said, as both fought against the evolving threat of Russian organized crime for their respective countries.
The overall showdown is being fought against a backdrop of deep polarization, political violence and racial animus that's left a degree of uncertainty heading into Tuesday.
The former path would bring him closer to the vision of the founders, the latter makes him look more like the English monarchy they fought against.
Telecommunications companies like Comcast and AT&T had viciously fought against the rules, which aim to prevent them from prioritizing and blocking certain types of content.
Protests by demobilized soldiers are not uncommon, and previously some who had fought against Vietnam in 1979 have demonstrated in complaint against problems over their pensions.
However, for years the unions and entrenched bureaucrats have fought against efforts to remove underperforming employees who are protected by a tenure system that thwarts termination.
Ultimately, officials told CNN that the 12-man Green Beret-led team on the ground fought against the attackers with valor and that medals are expected.
It backs the 30,000-strong Free Syrian Army, renamed the National Liberation Front, which has fought against both the Islamic State and Y.P.G. forces in Afrin.
Harlan ultimately opposed secession and fought against the Confederacy, but he also opposed the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's re-election bid, and the 13th and 14th Amendments.
"It's my honor that I fought against hypocrisy," Raisi said, using a term Iranian officials use when referring to the main opposition groups of the 1980s.
And this happens a lot: Nickerson fought against Georgia-based Lincoln Premium Poultry, which wanted to process 1.6 million chickens a week for warehouse chain Costco.
" To visitors, particularly from nations that fought against the Nazis, the monuments around the city — especially the 20-meter (280-foot) statue known as "The Motherland Calls!
There is no difference in the patriotism of those who fought against Jim Crow and of those who fought in our nation's wars, and many did both.
Prosecutors have fought against this, saying giving unredacted parts of the sought-after document to the defense team would reveal how they plan to try his case.
At the same time the FCC has lagged on fixing its broadband mapping, it has fought against local town and city efforts to build better broadband networks.
Prominent ANC member Ahmed Kathrada, who fought against apartheid alongside President Nelson Mandela, appealed to Zuma to listen to the people of South Africa and step down.
Even in the Big Apple, it wasn't until the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, when the LGBT community fought against violent police, that LGBT clubs become legal.
During his time as U.S. attorney general and later as U.S. senator from New York, RFK fought against organized crime and was a champion for civil rights.
After nine hours of talks on Thursday night, Renzi successfully fought against including a reference to new immediate sanctions in the EU's worded summit statement released Friday.
Like Trump, Samson was famous for his hair, fought against foreign domination of his nation, was quick to vengeful anger, and had a weakness for female beauty.
Ranked No. 8 in the world and second in the U.S., the 30-year-old sabre fencer has long fought against negative Muslim stereotypes, hate, and bigotry.
The piece is a mallet where her previous work was a scalpel, both text-heavy and literal, two qualities Rosler, in her earlier work, actively fought against.
Though Google only noted receiving one national security letter from the latter half of 2015, the company has received more in the past and fought against them.
Iran has appeared increasingly isolated both on a global stage and in a region where it has long-fought against Saudi Arabia for political and religious dominance.
This remarkable difference can be largely attributed to the success of feminist activists who, in the intervening decades, fought against the shaming of women over consensual sex.
This time, Miranda said, Bolsonaro also managed to brand Brazil as a friendly destination for sex tourists, an image the country has fought against in recent years.
During Jim Crow and the reign of Klan terror, the black press fought against segregation, demanded equal rights for African Americans and helped elect politicians to office.
In 2015, she fought against a ban that makes female athlete with naturally high levels of testosterone ineligible to compete under International Association of Athletics Federation rules.
Trump's attorneys fought against an in-person interview after expressing concerns it could be a "perjury trap" for a president who often exaggerates or makes inaccurate statements.
The Vietnamese government is sensitive to ceremonies held in its country by former military members who fought against the North Vietnamese government and its Viet Cong allies.
Foods with any or all of these traits are generally perceived as tasty, whereas the lean, nutritious ones we so vehemently fought against as children do not.
That decision also caused grumbling in Hollywood, particularly among craftspeople — sound editors, sound mixers, makeup artists — who have long fought against efforts to edge their categories aside.
Prosecutors and law enforcement organizations fought against the changes, arguing they will make it easier for defendants to intimidate witnesses, especially in sexual assault and gang cases.
When Yemeni men who had fought against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan returned home in the 1990s, he saw that they were integrated into the security forces.
For decades, in and out of government, Mr. Malinowski has fought against torture and lobbied for protections for women, L.G.B.T.Q. people and vulnerable minorities around the world.
Our writer traveled the route of the Freedom Trail, which is an indictment of the cruelty of racism and a commemoration of those who fought against it.
They fought against the idea of universal coverage, then denounced the Affordable Care Act for failing to cover enough people; they made "skin in the game," i.e.
He fought against illegal guns and introduced PlaNYC, a green New York initiative that didn't achieve all it set out to but was ahead of the curve.
Kim Il-sung fought against the Japanese occupation in the 1930s, and came to power by creating a cult of personality that honored him as a deity.
The deputy police commander for Kunar, Mohammad Yousef, came from the same district as Qayum, and, for years, the two of them had fought against each other.
Trump says he is also seriously considering raising the age requirement from 18 to 21 to buy a rifle, something the National Rifle Association has fought against.
In the spring of 260, a version of the bankruptcy bill that Warren had fought against was approved by the House and the Senate, by large margins.
The group has antecedents in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, where its early followers traded shots with Nazis in the 1930s and fought against Benito Mussolini's Blackshirts.
Indeed, in the 1999 impeachment of President Clinton, Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Charles Schumer, fought against any witnesses and sought a summary vote without a trial.
Ubisoft, since the beginning, has fought against Vivendi's investment in the company, buying back shares and actively courting institutional investors in case a buyout offer ever surfaced.
Mulvaney, a staunch conservative, had fought against the CFPB's existence and supported several efforts to gut the bureau while serving as a GOP congressman from South Carolina.
Trump never disclosed those tax returns during the 2016 election, or after, and has fought against attempts by House Committees and state agencies to force their release.
He was among those who campaigned to erect the monument, which honors the Basque soldiers who fought against Franco, partly with a sculpture of a giant fingerprint.
"I came to realize that the system there involved all of the things I had fought against in Nazism," he told The New York Times in 1986.
Domestically, Corker has struck ire among union workers, particularly the United Auto Workers, as he fought against the unionization of workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga.
Critics say he is using the same repressive tactics he once fought against, and "Molotov Man" is now being used as a sign of rebellion against Ortega.
Some conservatives who had fought against Trump's ascendancy in the Republican nominating race welcomed his announcement that he had picked Pence, a well-known social and evangelical conservative.
He, like other stars, has ironically fallen in line with the very forms of consumer capitalism he fought against in his earlier works — even within the same show.
They take stock of the last few years as blacks fought against police brutality, Muslims battled religious persecution, and Hispanics defended themselves and their families from mass deportations.
He was a guerilla leader who opposed Portuguese colonialist rule, and later fought against the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which assumed power after decolonization.
The Kurds valiantly fought against ISIS not because we showed up and convinced them to, but because they had their backs to the wall and we saved them.
Whatever their personal feelings about slavery and secession, soldiers who fought against the Union on behalf of a Confederacy dedicated to securing human property cannot pass that test.
For his staunchest followers and detractors—the generation that lived under him, and the generation that fought against dictatorship on the streets—his reputation is unlikely to change.
In the US, it's still waiting on the results of the lawsuit it fought against the Federal Trade Commission in January, which was filed just days before Apple's.
For instance, the companies for years have fought against legislation known as "bottle bills," which require deposits to be paid on beverages sold in recyclable bottles and cans.
Did you know YouTube Red fought against Amazon, AMC, Netflix, and Hulu to win the rights to Cobra Kai, a sequel to the original 1984 Karate Kid movie?
It was a game that fought against us in a lot of different ways and required a lot more determination to finish it than any other game has.
In many ways, it's comparable to a trust fall—you've fought against your instincts to overcome a specific fear, no matter how minor that worry might have been.
Understandably, the festival, which commences each year on the summer solstice, has caught the attention of numerous animal-loving celebrities, who have spoken out and fought against it.
Pai fought against the enactment of former Chairman Tom Wheeler's signature Open Internet Order, which codified net neutrality, the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally.
A leftist guerrilla when a student who fought against Brazil's military dictatorship in the late 1960s, Nunes is today a strong advocate of free trade and private initiative.
Some displaced families interviewed by HRW said they were unable to return to Benghazi due to threats even though none of their relatives had fought against the LNA.
Trump tapped Myron Ebell, who has questioned whether human activity is contributing to climate change and has fought against environmental regulations, to lead transition efforts for the EPA.
He was quizzed over his role as one of the commanders of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war it fought against Serbia in 1998-99.
In 1982, the first Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in the capital of Hungary, where 20 competitors fought against each other to complete the puzzle the quickest.
In our collective years in Congress, we have witnessed – and fought against – repeated efforts to restrict women's access to health care in the U.S. and around the world.
The country, which borders Afghanistan, fought against Islamists allied with nationalists and liberal democrats in a civil war in the 1990s that killed tens of thousands of people.
Mr. Joyce, a social conservative who aggressively espoused what he called family values and fought against legalizing same-sex marriage, had been under pressure to resign for weeks.
The U.S. and Iran, though adversaries, are mutual enemies of ISIS and effectively fought against ISIS to crush the terrorist group's de facto state in Iraq and Syria.
Trump and his attorneys had initially fought against releasing the transcript portions, totaling three pages, and they are still opposed to going public with video of the deposition.
Jintana survived, but Charoen Wat-aksorn, who protested alongside her and fought against another coal-fired power plant in a nearby community, was shot dead in June 2004.
Some of Mr. Sadr's political allies, even those who fought against American soldiers in the past, want the United States to stay and help shore up the country.
Memorials to those who fought against the Japanese during World War Two, or in the Chinese civil war against the Nationalists, and others are scattered across the country.
Mnuchin is reportedly cooperating with senators on the legislation but has fought against their proposed deadline to reveal costs, pushing for it to be after the 85033 election.
Mr. Whitaker put distance between his own views and those of his former boss, Jeff Sessions, who fought against the changes in the bill, the First Step Act.
But no matter what the prevailing odds were, they didn't really concern themselves with those odds or focus on them, they just fought through and fought against them.
It also would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, a defeat for environmentalists who have fought against such action for decades.
And Sunni tribes that fought against Al Qaeda in Iraq during the US war there were allowed to "repent" to avoid slaughter when ISIS seized territory in Iraq.
It is currently named after Senator Richard Russell Jr., a senator from Georgia who served for almost 40 years, but was also a racist who fought against desegregation.
The advisory community (Wall Street) has fought against this, arguing that earlier versions would invite an avalanche of lawsuits and restrict the ability of Americans to receive investment advice.
He is intrigued by the derring-do of David Stirling, Billy McLean and other British mercenaries who fought against the republican regime which took power in Yemen in 1962.
Four decades after Bangladesh's liberation war, the Awami League pushed through constitutional changes allowing for the trial and execution of old men who had fought against Sheikh Hasina's father.
He said that the Taliban had fought against Afghan security forces "more intensely than perhaps we anticipated" and that the emergence of the Islamic State there had been unexpected.
Ranchers in Washington, who enjoy access to thousands of acres of public grazing lands, and have fought against wolf conservation in the state, quickly complained to the state legislature.
Government forces and the Saudi-led coalition also have fought against the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen (AQAP) and ISIS, both of which are anti-government Sunni terror groups.
But this is the story of a woman who was born a slave, who fought against all odds, who learned to read and write and eventually won her freedom.
Government forces and the Saudi-led coalition also have fought against the Al Qaeda branch in Yemen (AQAP) and ISIS, both of which are anti-government Sunni terror groups.
Sanchez Ceren is a former guerrilla commander for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, now the ruling party, which had fought against the U.S.-backed military during the war.
The central bank fought against the tide for a while, using up some $2 billion, or more than a fifth, of its foreign-exchange reserves to defend the rupee.
I mean, I think with anyone who at any point in his or her political career has actively fought against equality—how would one be not worried about that?
He told CNBC on Thursday that Panama has made great strides to rid of its bank secrecy reputation and has vigorously fought against money laundering, terrorism and tax evasion.
Washington and Ankara have been at odds over plans for northeastern Syria, where the YPG formed the main part of a U.S.-backed force which fought against Islamic State.
For many South Africans, the A.N.C. is the party of liberation that fought against apartheid and now controls the fonts of patronage that cement the loyalty of its followers.
Starboard won seats on Wednesday not only at Yahoo but also at Marvell Technologies, a chip maker that the hedge fund had fought against for only a few months.
Although they lived in different centuries, Calhoun in the 19th, and Murray in the 20th, in many ways, she lived in — and fought against — the world that he built.
U.S. officials also suggested later — without explicitly confirming — that Russia has been arming the Taliban, which evolved from the mujahideen that the Soviet Union fought against in the 1980s.
"ISIS is nothing — they've been around for two years," said Rashid, who was fond of listing, in the profanest terms possible, the Iraqi premiers whose regimes he'd fought against.
Showing respect even to an enemy they fought against; trying to understand even an enemy that they hated — therein lies the spirit of tolerance embraced by the American people.
The victim, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, fought against Russian troops in at least two wars in the early 2000s and had survived other assassination attempts before settling in Germany in 2016.
Testifying at a Senate hearing in 2015 after his retirement, General Mattis opposed the release, before the end of hostilities, of prisoners who had fought against the United States.
"He energetically fought against the coup plotters last year and exceptionally contributed in strengthening peace and security during and after elections," Nkurunziza said in a statement late on Monday.
Interestingly, in the case of the health care bill, GOP radicalism went so far that not even the health care industries and constituencies that fought against Obamacare supported it.
TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Friday that Washington had taken all necessary sanctions against Russia related to a war it fought against Georgia in 2008.
Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee and fought against the 2005 weather bill, released a skeptical statement in response to Myers' nomination.
Without some concerted effort today, these artists are still all too likely, for the most part, to sink back into the obscurity they fought against as hard as they could.
For years, Netflix argued that it was not required to abide by the Americans with Disabilities Act and fought against captioning, though it eventually agreed to caption its streaming content.
It features a cartoon image of Fred Korematsu, an activist who fought against the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It would have been his 98th birthday today.
Those recommendations were welcomed by western lawmakers who had fought against recent monument designations, and who have explored ways to curtail presidential authority to create monuments in the first place.
In remembering the great victory that led to this body's founding, we must never forget that those heroes who fought against evil, also fought for the nations that they loved.
That's why activists who fought against SOPA/PIPA and stayed vigilant over the last five years aren't waiting for Congress to introduce new bills to encourage the public to activate.
Green groups have fought against drilling in the Great Australian Bight, warning that oil spills in the notoriously rough waters could threaten whale breeding grounds, pristine coastline and fishing towns.
Banks had fought against the fixed capital charge and the Basel Committee said it noted the industry's feedback on the feasibility and complexities of a one-size-fits-all approach.
Other companies like John Deere have similarly fought against third-party repair of tractors, forcing customers to drive hundreds of miles to a sanctioned repair shop at significant added cost.
" On "That Don't Make It Junk," released after he came down from the mountain, he put it simply: "I fought against the bottle / But I had to do it drunk.
He fought against Vietnam in a brief border war in 1979 that China launched in punishment for Vietnam invading Cambodia the previous year and ousting the Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge.
Memorably, as Hadid fought against the disease, her health and the severity of her illness were the subjects of endless speculation by everyone from bloggers to Hadid's own Housewives costars.
Here are five ways that Mulvaney, who fought against the CFPB's creation as a member of the House, has transformed it from within during his six months atop the agency.
Along the way, she fought against deeply held cultural stereotypes, where a woman's place was always behind the man: the father, the brother, the husband, the uncle, the village chief.
The first "stand your ground" law was pushed through by Marion Hammer, a former N.R.A. president who also fought against the adoption of the amicable scrub jay as state bird.
The group's "constant battles," he continued, "to keep monuments, flags and other symbols of Confederate heritage intact are usually hard fought, against long odds and without any political allies." video
Maharashtra, home to several social reformers including B.R. Ambedkar who fought against caste discrimination, in 2013 passed legislation criminalizing practices related to black magic, human sacrifices, and other superstitious beliefs.
For more than 14 hours, Slabinski and his team defended their position and fought against enemies until the mountaintop was secured and the team could be extracted, the Navy said.
Casino revenues have surged, but the government budget remains less than a sixth of what the casino produces annually, said local resident Glen Hunter, who has fought against the development.
It's hard to doubt the legitimacy of Silva's reasoning, given his attitude and how many times he has fought against tough, top-tier opposition with numerous issues in the past.
In remembering the great victory that led to this body's founding, we must never forget that those heroes who fought against evil also fought for the nations that they loved.
But industry lobbyists have fought against the provisions and, ahead of the vote, draft legislation for the right-to-repair refrigerators looked like it had been written by a lobbyist.
It's a historical throwback to a "Make America Great Again"-esque rhetoric, which itself became a dog whistle for white supremacy (a cause which Kaepernick has very publicly fought against).
It's a very different threat from the SOPA/PIPA and CISPA legislation many Americans fought against over the past half a decade, but it's just as worthy of their attention.
They also fought against restrictions on imported parts, saying those could slow operations at facilities they had opened in the United States, including Samsung's new appliance factory in South Carolina.
The WikiLeaks founder has long fought against being transferred to the United States, citing comments from officials in Washington calling for the death penalty to be considered for his crimes.
"I'm the only one in this race who's fought against anti-immigrant bills," said Ms. Valdez, positioning the choice between herself and Mr. Abbott as a binary one for progressives.
"What mayor could afford to be tagged as not being active on jobs?" said Greg LeRoy, the executive director of the group Good Jobs First, which has fought against incentives.
The election of Donald Trump was a wake-up call for so many; it revealed an American dystopia that communities on the margin have endured and fought against for generations.
They said Mr. Pai's message was clear: The F.C.C., an independent agency, will mirror the Trump administration's rapid unwinding of government regulations that businesses fought against during the Obama administration.
Over the past two years, Mr. Puigdemont has successfully fought against extradition attempts from Belgium and Germany, where local judges rejected the Spanish claim that he had led a rebellion.
The documents concern a complex property dispute that dates back to at least 2004, when the Russian state fought against the private owners of an office building in northwest Moscow.
Industry lobbyists have fought against the efforts tooth and nail, per the New York Times, as both big and small players in the business are heavily reliant on flavored products.
The civil rights nonprofit, which has fought against injustice and racial inequality for nearly five decades, was thrust into chaos over allegations over its treatment of minority and female employees.
The country has struggled for decades to reach lasting peace agreements with a multitude of ethnic minority guerrilla groups that have fought against the government for greater autonomy and recognition.
While Obama fought against the influence of K Street, lobbyists would meet with White House aides at a coffee shop across the street to avoid being caught in visitor logs.
That's a choice that American conservatives have fought against, tooth and nail, with the help of predatory tax services companies like H&R Block and Intuit (the makers of TurboTax).
U.S., British and German volunteers who fought against Islamic State alongside Kurdish-led forces in Syria are also now in the Afrin area to help confront Turkey, the SDF said.
"And having had a little taste of the way the Australian Government treats people who have fought against ISIS, I don't doubt they would re-cancel my visa," he wrote.
In remembering the great victory that led to this body's founding, we must never forget that those heroes who fought against evil, also fought for the nations that they love.
The idea is, in essence, to make a map of the human body's immune responses—of its T-cell receptors sequences and the codes of the antigens they have fought against.
And groups like the MPAA have fought against letting works fall into the public domain, something that keeps old art accessible and allows artists and other creators to build on it.
It had been almost a decade since gay patrons at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village of New York, fought against police discrimination and harassment, which resulted in a riot.
"When it came to granting amnesty, no distinction was made between those who enforced apartheid and those who fought against it," the columnist Franny Rabkin wrote in the Business Day newspaper.
"It's not appropriate under the Constitution, and historically, we've always said if you fought against the United States, that the correct answers were basically jail as opposed to deportation," he said.
Though Tillerson does not personally deny climate change, his company has a rocky history in this regard (to say the least) and has fought against mainstream scientific findings on global warming.
In post-2011 wartorn Syria, nations of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, among others, funded many factions of the Free Syrian Army that fought against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Asad.
Despite her tireless campaign to get the holiday recognized by the United States government, Jarvis ended up denouncing the institution she created, bankrupting herself as she fought against its perceived commercialization.
In a tweet, Briley called on his city to instead "remember those who fought against hate," pointing to Nashville civil rights activist Diane Nash and civil rights lawyer Z. Alexander Looby.
" 6:13 PM PT -- Avenatti just held a brief press conference, saying, "I have fought against the powerful -- powerful people and powerful corporations -- I will never stop fighting that good fight.
In 2014, Gamergate — the anti-feminist harassment movement that surfaced in gaming culture and spread into larger internet culture — also fought against many gaming franchises that sought to be more diverse.
But the deleted tweet from a politician who has condemned same-sex marriage and fought against LGBT rights still raised the ire of those who accused Patrick of blaming the victims.
The Thirty Comrades went to Japan for military training and fought against Britain during most of World War II, but they switched sides after it became clear the British would win.
As globalization expanded, it pounded foreign cars with sledge hammers, sponsored protective tariffs, promoted "Buy American" campaigns, tried to defeat Nafta, tried to organize unions and fought against undocumented migrant labor.
Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), who has for years pressed for greater regulations on cruise ships, said the industry fought against her last bill on the issue, which was enacted in 2010.
Mr. Puigdemont fled abroad in October 2017 after Spain's government forced his ouster, and has since successfully fought against the attempts to extradite him from Belgium and more recently from Germany.
For many people who fought against apartheid, this means taking up the battle cry again, this time protesting and organizing against leaders who talk exceptionalism while behaving in utterly mediocre ways.
Ohr first came into contact with Steele in the mid-2000s, people who know him said, as both fought against the evolving threat of Russian organized crime for their respective countries.
At a time when AIDS was poorly understood and people feared White could spread the disease to other children, residents of his Howard County community fought against his return to school.
Earlier that summer, Alabama governor George Wallace fought against admitting black students to the University of Alabama, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated, and riots popped up in several cities.
I talked to Armour—now a special needs teacher—about life on and off the battlefield, and what it's like to share war stories with the very people he fought against.
And yet her work isn't widely known—a fact that speaks to the ways in which the very overlapping oppressions that she fought against likely affected the canonization of her work.
It was something that we fought against quite often, and in the latter seasons of the show you see it changing a little bit, but still it wasn't a massive dramatic shift.
The agrochemical and biotech industry has for years fought against efforts to pass either U.S. state or federal laws that would require food companies to adjust product labels to show GMO ingredients.
The First Men: the original human inhabitants of Westeros who fought against the Children of the Forest and then with them to defeat the White Walkers during the Battle for the Dawn.
Immigration advocates fought against claims of "child actors" saying the Trump Administration is using the threat of separating families to halt immigration to the United States, according to the New York Times.
Benioff also fought against a bill in Indiana that was ultimately changed, which would have allowed faith-based organizations to refuse service to the LGBT community in the name of religious freedom.
The merger will require approval from the FCC and Justice Department, but some consumer advocates have fought against the idea, pitched by T-Mobile and Sprint, that a merger will benefit consumers.
Meanwhile, Uber has fought against the new wage rules for its drivers set to come into effect later in January as well as a freeze on ride-sharing licenses in New York.
"If you're a woman in Sudan who's decided to take political action, you've already fought against so many authorities," Muzan Alnail, an engineer and protester, told BuzzFeed News by phone from Khartoum.
The federal government -- and law enforcement specifically -- currently lacks the authority and proper tools to address domestic foreign terrorist organizations in the ways that it has effectively fought against foreign terrorist organizations.
Bank commodifies the image of a commodified woman who fought against the commodification of people There's just one problem with all the outrage -- Harriet's NOT shouting out King T'Challa on the card.
For many young visitors, their visit to the memorial is a first glimpse at a grateful nation's remembrance of the sacrifices made by the brave men and women who fought against tyranny.
Missouri Firearms Coalition political advisor Aaron Dorr says the NRA fought against constitutional carry for years, considering it too much of a longshot, and only came on board once passage was certain.
Sunday's election, fought against the tense backdrop of surging support for far left and far right parties across Europe, delivered a fractured German parliament with six party groups, up from four previously.
Why it matters: Historically, Airbnb has fought against regulations, especially those that could make it harder for new hosts to join its service and get in the way of its business growth.
Dandong's emotional ties with North Korea run deep, thanks to its front line position during the 1950-53 Korean War when China and North Korea fought against a U.S.-led UN coalition.
As someone who has frequently fought against patent trolls, I believe that this challenge to legitimate patent enforcement would be swinging the pendulum far too far with serious potential harm to consumers.
He fought against Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt, who led an all-out push to get Trump to live up to his campaign promise to pull out of the pact.
It has fought against arbitration agreements that strip consumers of their rights to sue, attacked payday lending, and obtained nearly $12 billion for consumers in the forms of refunds and canceled debts.
"You're looking at different level of capabilities when you're talking about a higher-end threat, and the United States Army hasn't fought against that type of enemy in a long time," Gen.
TORONTO (Reuters) - A former Canadian police chief and several colleagues who fought against making marijuana use legal have switched sides and embraced the looming legalization of cannabis with a leap into business.
The Obama administration has had a cordial relationship with Nicaragua, but decades of criticism from the U.S. government haven't been forgotten by Ortega, who fought against U.S.-backed rebels in the 1980s.
David Zuckerman, the lieutenant governor of Vermont, is an eccentric longtime figure in state politics — a ponytail-sporting organic farmer and Bernie Sanders protege who has proudly fought against government-mandated vaccinations.
Remembering their relationships with their mothers, the characters of "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) also remember the times they fought against their mothers' wishes that they become chess champions or concert pianists.
The first film's director, Tim Miller, exited, reportedly after Mr. Reynolds, who was a producer on both films and a writer on the second, fought against making the sequel a megabudget project.
The survey was carried out as the government came under strong criticism from opposition parties for planning a commemoration of the British police force that fought against Irish independence a century ago.
In the Battle of Blair Mountain, miners literally fought against management and government for their right to organize and to earn cash instead of scrip and to shop outside of company stores.
When Islamist rivals seized control of the country after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MEK fled to neighboring Iraq, where it  fought against Iran alongside then-president Saddam Hussein&aposs forces.
Winfrey told Jones that it was the Parkland activists' strength and confidence in taking their cause public that reminded her of those who fought against racial injustice in the 1950s and '60s.
"The primary goal of the operation is to clear Syrian territories of all terrorist groups," he explained, saying Turkey has fought against ISIS and cooperated with its allies in eliminating ISIS terrorists.
In "Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi," a 2019 Bollywood biopic of Rani Laxmibai, a 19th-century Indian princess who fought against Britain's colonial army, soldiers snatch a calf to kill for steak.
Turkey sees the largely Kurdish-led government and its fighters in northern Syria as a threat and aligned to the Kurdistan Worker's Party, which has fought against Turkish soldiers since the 1980s.
"Leaders have pushed hate, fought against rights, ignored crimes against humanity and blithely let inequality and suffering spin out of control," the campaign group said in its yearly audit of human rights.
If so, supporters of that agreement in his own party and on the left could be swamped by supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe, who has ferociously fought against the peace deal.
That is something I fought against as a senator and I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure we don't get taken advantage of by China, on steel or anything else.
Elizabeth Warren continued urging her colleagues to read Coretta Scott King's 30-year-old letter opposing Jeff Sessions -- saying she sees King's concerns that Sessions fought against civil rights as "directly relevant" today.
From the slouchy, oversized jeans you love so much to the boxy blazer you wear with your dresses, these items are symbolic of the women who fought against the limitations of their gender.
While race doesn't play the same role elsewhere in the continent, activists there who have fought against bitter divisions sown by hate speech worry events in the US could embolden those at home.
Indeed, in 2014 Warren was widely seen as the voice of a dissenting left wing of the party when she fought against a deal that included weakening the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.
"When I see that people are being detained and experiencing violence at the hands of the authorities, and people can't do anything about it, I think this must be fought against," he said.
Why it matters: Uber and other gig economy companies have long fought against lawsuits and other attempts to reclassify their workers as employees, which would require they pay for benefits like health insurance.
The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups have vigorously fought against reporting requirements for stolen guns in others parts of the country, contending that they expose gun owners to unwarranted penalties.
Zuroff accused Hasanbegovic, a historian who is also involved in publishing, of failing to recognize the genocidal nature of the Nazi-sponsored Ustasha regime, and showing disdain for Croatians who fought against it.
The company argued that a warrant was not sufficient to demand emails stored outside the United States, an argument that the Justice Department has fought against all the way to the Supreme Court.
YALA, Thailand (Reuters) - Pateemoh Poh-itaeda-oh, 39, has lost four family members to violence in Thailand's deep south, where a Muslim separatist movement has fought against rule from Bangkok for 15 years.
As a lawyer at the ACLU, he has fought against an onslaught of discriminatory anti-trans legislation, represented iconic whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and worked with grassroots organizations to radically alter the status quo.
A few days after the inauguration in January, Google sent a powerful statement of resistance by honoring Fred Korematsu, a civil rights activist who fought against Japanese-American internment camps in the 1940s.
San Jose and Sacramento have banded together in a bid to buy out PG&E from its investors and make it a customer-owned cooperative, but the company has fought against a takeover.
She described him as a quiet man who sometimes vanished for days at a time, but said she did not think he fought against American forces in Iraq as her first husband had.
Dreiband was also opposed by committee Democrats, who cited his 2008 testimony against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and his work as a private attorney that Democrats said fought against LGBT rights.
Delmer Berg, the last known living veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which vainly fought against Fascism's advance into Spain in the late 23s, died on Sunday at his home in Columbia, Calif.
What we're hearing: IBM, Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise broke with social media firms on big policy positions, such as supporting the anti-trafficking bills in Congress that Facebook and Google fought against.
Throughout the 1960s as the Vietnam War heated up, protesters regularly fought against the rise of computing, which was concentrated on university campuses and often involved in classified work for the Defense Department.
Mr. Hutchinson often fought against the prevailing definitions of obscenity in cases that were seen as landmarks in Britain's transition from a prudish and hidebound society to a more open and tolerant one.
His father, Akhmad, had fought against Russia during the first Chechen war in the mid-1990s but later allied with President Vladimir V. Putin, who appointed him in 2000 to run the region.
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center was founded in 1971, and opponents of electric shock devices have fought against it for decades through legislation, lawsuits, petitions and reports that described the shocks as torture.
I have checked resale sites, and it does have some monetary value, but I do not want it to fall into hands that may use it symbolically for what my father fought against.
Abadi's decision to halt, two days after elite Iraqi troops poured into the city's rural southern outskirts, postpones what was expected to be one of the biggest battles ever fought against Islamic State.
Uber's system for background checks was a major point of contention for the company as it battled to become legal across the U.S. Namely, the company has long fought against fingerprint background checks.
The efforts of the pioneering Voortrekkers, who traveled inland fleeing the British and fought against Zulus in the Battle of Blood River, are lionized by some present day Afrikaners, who identify with their struggle.
In "Anarchy Means I Litter," he fought against the uniformity of punk and the old gutterpunk trope which dictates that being punk is nothing more than throwing empty Olde English bottles on the ground.
The FTC has long fought against so-called "pay for delay" settlements, in which a brand-name drugmaker pays or otherwise compensates a generic rival to delay releasing a cheaper version of its product.
In the '90s, Horowitz started a magazine dedicated to exposing the "the gulag" of the politically correct college campuses, fought against affirmative action, and steadily gained influence among key Republicans and conservative think tanks.
In the past couple of years, he has been photographed with fighters in Syria, where Iran is defending the government of President Bashar al Assad, and Iraq, where Iranians have fought against Islamic State.
Couric, a former "Today" show host who went on to anchor the "CBS Evening News" and then host her own talk show, said she would have "fought" against doing any phone interviews with Trump.
Nor is it true that the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, pushed for the trial and execution of "old men" just because they fought against her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh.
Sirkis, who describes himself as a "militant environmentalist," is a co-founder of the country's Green Party and a former congressman, as well as a former guerilla fighter who fought against Brazil's military dictatorship.
In 2015, she tried to take him to New Jersey — but Noor fought against the move, and eventually the court decided that the boy should continue to live in Minnesota, the Star Tribune reported.
You can either follow your husband's lead in 1992 and let third-party folks in or your husband's lead in 1996, when he was ahead of the polls and fought against Ross Perot's inclusion.
Early in his congressional career, he joined a small cohort of House Republicans who fought against President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind education plan, which exerted federal control over K-12 schooling.
In the lead-up to the 1988 Games, the residents of Sanggyedong, a poor Seoul neighborhood, fought against the riot police and the thugs hired to kick them off the land for Olympic redevelopment.
"We fought against one bad thing, and we benefited from another," Mr. Bitkov, 47, said in an interview at the small, crowded jail for white-collar suspects where he has spent almost 18 months.
They reached an impasse a month ago when powerful Iowa Republican Senators Grassley and Joni Ernst fought against some of the changes being pushed by Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas and oil refiners.
The Chamber has historically been tightly aligned with Republicans, especially during the Obama administration when it fought against the healthcare law and criticized what it saw as heavy-handed regulation of the financial sector.
The nation's leading business group fought against the original rule, claiming that restricting arbitration would raise the cost of nursing home care and make it harder, and more costly, for residents to resolve disputes.
That's something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.
Democrats have fought against the payday lending industry, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a rule last year meant to protect vulnerable customers from being trapped in cyclical debt from high-interest loans.
Turkey's military and allied Syrian rebel groups last week fought against Kurdish forces allied to the SDF in northwest Syria, where both sides are seeking to take territory from their mutual enemy Islamic State.
" The BBC describes its 50-minute documentary hosted by journalist Peter Taylor as the "inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
A brilliant look at a failed revolutionary, Chester Brown's graphic biography tells the life story of métis rebel leader Riel, who fought against the Canadian government for the freedom and rights of his people.
In Europe, individual cosmetic companies like The Body Shop were actively engaged in supporting the new regulations while others, such as Cosmetics Europe — the European trade association for the cosmetics industry, actively fought against.
"[Sessions] has fought against women's rights and women's equality, voted against paycheck fairness, the Violence Against Women Act, voted to defund Planned Parenthood, and questioned the constitutional legitimacy of Roe V. Wade," she said.
As a United States representative from Ohio who fought against enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, I can attest that its bite has been felt hard by the people across the region.
That was soon followed by Amazon rescinding its decision to build a campus in Long Island City after progressive activists fought against a plan to provide the company with $3 billion in government incentives.
Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona — Republicans who have in the past fought against hard-line immigration policies — said the Senate was unlikely to simply accept the president's legislation.
Although the faction fought against both the Taliban and the government previously, it was the first Afghan insurgent group to enter peace talks with Kabul, and it shares many ideological similarities with the Taliban.
Volodymyr O. Zelensky, the television comedian who defeated President Petro O. Poroshenko in the presidential election this month, has said he would not grant amnesty to anyone who fought against Ukraine in the war.
"We fought against the tide, receiving attacks and punishments from individuals and governments for having exposed their bad practices and corrupt acts," the editor of the newspaper, Norte, wrote in a front-page letter.
The absence of U.S. forces had led to an immediate invasion by Turkish troops that threatened to obliterate the Kurdish rebels who have fought against ISIS on behalf of the United States for years.
A brawl involving chair-throwing and an exchange of blows broke out in the parliamentary chamber on two consecutive days as MPs opposed to the measure fought against those supporting it and security personnel.
In one court case in 2016, basketball great Michael Jordan fought against a Chinese sportswear company whose main logo bore a striking resemblance to the iconic Air Jordan image used on Nike (NKE) products.
Environmentalists have long fought against the $85033 billion Keystone project, designed to carry up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day between the Alberta oil fields and American refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.
"As South Africans, we can learn from other African countries, for an example, look at the issue of corruption that Fela fought against back in the day, it is now happening here," Sekhabi said.
The government of the Persian-speaking nation which borders Afghanistan fought against Islamists - who were allied with nationalists and liberal democrats - in a civil war in the 1990s which killed tens of thousands of people.
Although Luther was excommunicated by the Catholic church, the pope has found warm things to say about him: He fought against corruption and greed, and he encouraged Christians to pay more attention to the Bible.
You know, it went back to Afghanistan, to the war that the Mujahadeen fought against the Soviet Union, and Bin Laden kind of cut his teeth there, and then he bounced around Sudan and Afghanistan.
In the photo, Gilly is reading the following words: It is also written that there are annals in Asshai of such a darkness, and of a hero who fought against it with a red sword.
"Nobody has ever gone to bat for Florida farmers and fought against illegal trade practices like President Trump," Mr. Putnam said last week at a breakfast with Republican activists at a Cuban restaurant in Miami.
" The first Gears of War followed Marcus Fenix and his ludicrously chunky friends as they fought against the Locust — a race of beefcake aliens who live underground and are obsessed with luminous goo called "emulsion.
Dostum, an Uzbek strongman and warlord in the early part of the Afghanistan War, fought against the Taliban on horseback alongside a 12-man team of Green Berets from the US Special Forces in 2001.
When Hugin was a student at Princeton in the 2628s, he fought against efforts to allow women in as president of the Tiger Inn, one of the university's all-male eating clubs, where upperclassmen dine.
Trust me, I saw a lot of people on the convention floor in Cleveland with their "blue lives matter" rhetoric, who either remained silent or actively fought against the 9/11 first responders' bill reauthorization.
Mainstream media coverage exposes what black communities have endured, fought against, and known to be true for over two centuries in this country and over half a millennium of enslavement and repression on this continent.
This is the story of a young progressive politician who was born in the Bronx, and who fought against a well-established political machine to become one of the youngest politicians in our city's history.
This performance decrease can be fixed by replacing the battery, but Apple's replacement program has a weeks-long waiting list and the company has fought against third-party repair of its phones at every turn.
They are part of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella organization of about 50 paramilitary groups that fought against the Islamic State, a radical Sunni group, and are paid by the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government.
As Facebook continues to say, over and over, that it wants to be as transparent as possible, it neglects the fact that it has fought against external oversight of how its platform worked for years.
Theory: Lady Trieu Wants Revenge Industrialist Lady Trieu is very much anti-colonialism; her name itself is an homage to the famed warrior who fought against the Chinese occupation of Vietnam in the third century.
Likewise, the reason these millions of men fought against one another matters much less than the sad fact that they did, leaving in the battles' wakes a war-torn continent piled up with anonymous bodies.
The others honored Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, all of whom betrayed the US and fought against the union during the Civil War to preserve slavery.
Creators have fought against manual copyright claims from companies that have nothing to do with the content in question, false copyright strikes from trolls, and ardent claims from record labels over the tiniest clip being used.
Update 9/13/18 4:17pm: We reached out to the office of Kshama Sawant, one of the Seattle City Council members who fought against the repeal of the so-called "head tax" on this announcement.
In his tenure — which includes an overall record of 32-6-3 with 25 knockouts — Ortiz has fought against an impressive list of boxers including Floyd Mayweather, Andre Berto, Lamont Peterson, Luis Collazo, and Marcos Maidana.
Trump has tapped a group of outspoken China critics for key trade roles, including the author of a book called "Death by China" and a lawyer who's fought against China dumping steel into the U.S. market.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a blunt put-down Tuesday against White House national security advisor John Bolton over his pledges to ensure Turkish nonaggression against Kurds who fought against the Islamic State in Syria.
This was unlike the culture wars of the 60s or the 90s, in which a typically older age cohort of moral and cultural conservatives fought against a tide of cultural secularization and liberalism among the young.
" Others in conservative media have also fought against Shine, like Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, who told the Daily Beast, "I don't want [to] see the ghost of Roger Ailes running the White House communications operation.
Ihor Kolomoisky, the owner of Ukraine's biggest bank and an industrial and media tycoon, is widely credited with funding volunteer battalions that defended the region of Dnipropetrovsk and fought against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
And the solution is the very thing he and his family fought against in the '21s and his campaign is fighting against now: more diverse neighborhoods like Jamaica Estates, and by extension a more diverse America.
Suegee Tamar-Mattis and Hans Lindahl The California State Legislature passed a resolution on Tuesday denouncing "corrective" surgeries on intersex children, a landmark decision celebrated by advocates who have fought against this medical practice for decades.
Part of the reason for the delay comes in the form of Rivett's son, Neil Berriman, who fought against the issue of a death certificate because of the small chance that Lord Lucan was still alive.
Assimilationists sounded kinder: they often fought against black oppression, but they also argued that black people needed to change their behavior—their culture—in order to catch up to white people and assimilate into white society.
Mathew D. Staver, Judge Moore's lawyer and the founder of Liberty Counsel, a legal group that has fought against same-sex marriage, called the decision illegal and said he was appealing to the Alabama Supreme Court.
The freshman California Democrat has fought against the tide — not to mention her own party establishment — to squeak out long-shot victories in local elections and, most recently, November's hard-fought contest to replace former Rep.
Many of the candidates running for president were also among the lawmakers in the House and Senate who overwhelmingly supported SESTA-FOSTA, 2018 legislation nominally intended to curb sex trafficking that many sex workers fought against.
Abdullah, who is supported by ethnic minority leaders including Noor who fought against the Taliban's hard-line Islamist regime in the 1990s, formed a coalition government with President Ashraf Ghani after a disputed 2014 presidential election.
"The idea was in the air, it was almost realized, and I don't think it will go away so quickly," said Aviv Tatarsky of Ir Amim, a Jerusalem advocacy group that fought against the entire bill.
The Cuomo administration had fought against releasing the emails for two years, spending more than $200,000 to hire outside counsel — Greenberg Traurig, a loyal Cuomo campaign donor — after The Times went to court seeking the documents.
The shortsightedness of the USPSTF's recommendation, which were something many urologists fought against, was validated in July 28503 when Nature magazine published a study showing rates of metastatic cancer climbed 22019 percent between 2004 and 2012.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran police have arrested three men for the murder of Lesbia Urquia, an environmental activist who fought against hydroelectric and mining projects on indigenous lands in the Central American country, authorities said on Wednesday.
His father lost his job—having a brother who had fought against the revolution made him politically suspect—and was sent to work in the coal mines of Yangquan, in Shanxi Province, where Liu still lives.
Many of these arguments were drawn, as Klein herself acknowledged, from the experiences of frontline groups, many in the Global South, who for decades have fought against corporate encroachment on their land and way of life.
The singing of the national anthem harks back to the founding of our nation, a time steeped in war and sacrifice by the noble patriots who fought against British tyranny to carve an independent path forward.
Valdez, the first openly gay or lesbian major party candidate for governor in the history of Texas, has fought against bathroom bills, saying the legislation addresses a non-existent problem and stirs discrimination against transgender people.
This boy, willing and able to make himself strong, entered the political arena and fought against long odds for the health and well-being of his fellow citizens — a worthy cause if ever there was one.
She inherited a rebellious streak; her maternal great-grandfather had been deported to Siberia in the 19th century after protesting forced conscription into the Russian Army, and her father fought against the Bolsheviks during the Revolution.
Late last year Uber and Lyft lamented, and actively fought against, the city's decision to establish a minimum wage of $17 for all ridehail drivers—which would give Uber drivers $10,000 more per year on average.
Out with EPA regulation, in with a negligible carbon tax Trump's new energy adviser has also tirelessly fought against the Clean Power Plan, which would enact the first ever nationwide limit on pollution from power plants.
In fact, they've recently gone so far as to make it so that he was ALWAYS a Nazi, and that the previous canon of a good-guy Steve Rogers who fought against Hitler was actually a lie.
Photo: GettyIt's becoming clear that online companies can do some of the hard things they've fought against tooth and nail—they just have to be forced to do it, although they apparently won't prepare ahead of time.
Abrams, who is aiming to become the nation's first black female governor, fought against two decades of Republican rule in the state by tapping into support from progressives and left-leaning minorities who typically skip midterm elections.
The FTC has long fought against so-called "pay for delay" settlements, in which a brand-name drugmaker pays a generic rival to delay releasing a cheaper version of its product in exchange for resolving patent lawsuits.
The Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit organization that has fought against onerous prison phone prices for years, has argued that scandal-plagued Securus lacks the requisite "character" requirements for approval, and should be blocked on those grounds.
Six years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is still caught in turmoil among rival military factions who once fought against the former leader but then turned against one another in a multi-sided power struggle.
Bolitho, a South African journalist and friend of Ernest Hemingway, wrote about 12 famous "adventurers"—from Alexander the Great to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson—who fought against the conventions of their times, for better or for worse.
Syria's YPG Kurdish militia are the core of a force that has fought against Islamic State with the support of U.S. air power, arms, funds, training and an estimated 2,000 American special forces troops on the ground.
Anybody vested with new power in post-apartheid South Africa wrestles with whether they've sold out—with how much they really differ from the power- or status-hungry people they fought against when they were less privileged.
Off the page, she fought against the worst of these schemes, including Robert Moses's plan to run a 10-lane elevated superhighway through much of what is now SoHo, Little Italy, Chinatown and the Lower East Side.
The most high profile is Julian Fantino, a former Toronto police chief and Conservative cabinet minister who fought against the legalization of pot and who said he now sees the value of a legal medical pot industry.
No matter what, eventually, affects some major paradigm shift, it may one day be odd for people to look back on these huge pieces of pop culture and see the ways they fought against necessary social upheavals.
I'm wondering how it plays in western Pennsylvania, where we're watching the big special election to replace Tim Murphy, the Republican who famously fought against abortion while trying to make sure his mistress ended any unwanted pregnancies.
On Saturday, he spoke publicly about changing allegiances one more time, abandoning the Houthis and reaching out to Saudi Arabia and other regional powers who had fought against them for three years with a devastating bombing campaign.

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