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fighting

(= fight, scrap) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle a fight broke out at the hockey game there was fighting in the streets the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap (= active, combat-ready) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations on active duty the platoon is combat-ready review the fighting forces

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Simple sentences

The couple next door are fighting again.
Hey boys, stop fighting. Come on, break it up!
Please stop fighting.
He was expelled from school for fighting.
We're fighting for our lives.
Tom and Mary are fighting again.
Sami doesn't like fighting.
I dreamt about fighting in a war.
Everyone is fighting for a place in the sun.
Tom had been fighting for his life before they found him.
They are too busy fighting against each other to care for common ideals.
Scientists are fighting to stem the spread of the AIDS virus.
Because of fighting in the region, the oil supply was temporarily cut off.
Wonderful was the fighting spirit of the Australian rugby team.
Greenpeace is fighting an uphill battle to save the environment.
The policeman separated the two men who were fighting.
Fighting won't settle anything.
Look! Two boys are fighting.
In other areas of the city, fighting continued.
He died fighting in the Vietnam War.
The siblings are fighting tooth and nail over the estate their father left them in his will.
If you want to find eternal quiet and peace, fighting is not enough; you must also conquer.
This is like fighting someone with one arm tied behind your back.
Doctors are fighting against disease.
Unless you stop fighting, I'll call the police.
I intend on fighting till the end.
The president called on the people to unite in fighting poverty and disease.
I wish they would stop fighting.
Imogen of the Internet is fighting six bored housewives to win an eBay auction for a bag of premium chai tea.
When he was fighting with you, his heart broke half-and-half.
The doctor is fighting against the disease.
They did not want to get involved in the fighting.
Japanese and American forces were still fighting bitterly.
The fighting grew bloodier.

Movie subtitles

If someone wins, the fighting will end.
Do you still plan on fighting?
When not fighting the French, the English fought the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish. or themselves.
Carolina sort of-- she couldn't say much, but she said that she was-- they were fighting-- her and Johnny were fighting.
Stop fighting and just come over here!
Call some guys with good fighting skills.
But greater even than his fighting skill Is his belief in the power of training.
You were the sourpuss fighting with the girl in the shiny dress.
Nobody's fighting.
But can't you expel those boys for fighting?
I don't want you fighting with those boys anymore.
You've been fighting for this all your life, Snake.
There are no medals for the war we are fighting, nor epitaphs.
We'd been fighting for 7 years.
It's a ruse. They'll keep fighting.
Since you defeated me, you're the only person I can entrust with the weapons I used in the last 15 years of fighting you.
You know there's fighting in Paris right now.
I'm fighting for you, the children and the Algerians, so people will respect your religion, values and the color of your skin.
I spent 20 years of my life fighting, killing and destroying.
He is by the blood he spilled, fighting for France.
Fighting will solve nothing.
Don't misunderstand. I am well aware that in the past, you were fighting for humankind.
But listen. You've been fighting for justice all this time, right?
They're in far more danger fighting him.
All the fighting.
And the more they want to fight, the harder it is for me to make them stop fighting.
Politically, it seems that it's just Your Majesty and the South that's fighting alone.
Bang Shil, fighting!
I know you, from Spider's. You were the sourpuss fighting with the girl in the shiny dress.
Fighting around Plevna.
She stated that she felt as if she were fighting against an unknown force stronger than her own.
This is no time to be fighting!
What are you guys fighting for? We no fight.
Start fighting.
Come on. Stop fighting.
Stop fighting!

News and current affairs

The systematic study of persuasion began during World War II, when the US Army recognized that fighting a nation mesmerized by Hitler would require bolstering troop motivation and rallying popular support for the war.
The US backed Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan against the Soviets, until the US ended up fighting bin Laden.
Indeed, he devoted almost the entire speech to the positive role of government in providing education, fighting climate change, rebuilding infrastructure, taking care of the poor and disabled, and generally investing in the future.
Many prisoners were not captured fighting in Afghanistan.
Of course, attacking Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the name of fighting militia death squads has the potential to draw American military forces into a level of urban warfare unseen since the Falluja assaults of 2004 and 2005.
The hope is that such realistic and pragmatic accommodations will be extended to Iraqis who are fighting under the banner of a nationalist and anti-occupation agenda.
Many Muslims who have been fighting for years for their countries' modernization have so far failed to find a lucid response to the progressive wave of radical Islam.
First, the fighting itself may not be the cakewalk that some assert.
Brainwashed Iraqi forces, and a regime complicit at every level in Saddam's crimes, would be fighting not to hang on to a conquest (as in the Gulf War of 1991) but to defend their homeland.
This raises the spectre of street fighting through Baghdad, desperate use of biological or chemical weapons, an attack to draw in Israel, numerous military and civilian deaths and the further destruction of a ravaged society.
He was initially slow in fighting organized crime, because he did not want to alienate the bulk of Milosevic's mafia-infested establishment at once.
The large coalition now fighting terrorism is one way to demonstrate this.
France's once-proud carmakers are fighting for survival.
Likewise, global warming will probably slightly increase malaria, but CO2 reductions will be far less effective at fighting this disease than mosquito nets and medication, which can cheaply save 850,000 lives every year.
EU leaders should take advantage of the break in the fighting to stop reacting and start anticipating.
Egypt's heir apparent Gamal Mubarak followed suit in the fourth week of the fighting by heading a 70-member delegation on a solidarity visit to Beirut.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
They are equally relevant to developing economies in terms of jobs, fighting poverty, and creating new opportunities at a time of increasingly uncertain commodity prices and exports.
Fifty-four of them were civilians who didn't take part in the fighting, and 25 were under 18 years of age.
For decades, academic analysts have been fighting over whether such large-scale family businesses should be considered beneficial.
Their objective was to create a military buffer between the PLO and Israeli forces that were then fighting in Beirut in order to promote the departure of both.
But the withdrawal of Western forces did not stop the fighting.
For example, fighting the Congress's proposed nationwide ban on driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants could be a high priority while negotiating new trade agreements with the US.
It would also help to amplify within China the universal and humanistic values for which Liu has spent so much of his life fighting.
In northern Uganda, ICC charges against leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have helped bring an end to years of brutal fighting, and marginalized the LRA's chief, Joseph Kony.

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