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Example sentences for "fight against"

  • And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

  • And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

  • So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.

  • And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.

  • However, I must tell you that if you want to fight, you will have nobody to fight against; for Father Chiniquy was, yesterday, accepted as a regular priest of our holy church by the administrator.

  • He spoke to me very kindly, encouraged me to fight against my bad inclinations, and, at first, gave me very kind and good advice.

  • It would make the most interesting book, were I to tell all the marvellous episodes of the new battle my dear countrymen and I had to fight against Rome, in those stormy but blessed days.

  • You people who live in the same town with me prepare, because the woman who always stays in the house in Kaodanan has come to fight against us," said Ginambo.

  • The people who live in Gonigonan have nearly killed your sister, because she went to fight against them," said the helpers.

  • Because there are many women, who have come to fight against you, at the place where the spring is," they said, and Aponibolinayen hurried to take her spear.

  • I am Aponibolinayen of Kaodanan who has no brother, and Ginambo of Gonigonan came to fight against me and the month in which we agreed to fight has come, so I go meet her.

  • And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest to do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight against Madian?

  • And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

  • If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace.

  • Who went up with Barak to Kadesh to fight against Jabin, King of Canaan, into whose hand Israel had been sold because of their iniquities?

  • When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

  • And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

  • He has much to fight against"; Harry had much to fight against; Uncle James knew what, and he knew that James also knew.

  • Everything had gone my way before that; I literally never knew what it was to have to put up a fight against something I recognized as stronger than I and likely to beat me in the end.

  • You can't fight against destiny," she said at last.

  • The German army does not intend to fight against you, but seeks a free path against the enemy who wishes to attack us.

  • These events and changes are inevitable and it is hopeless to fight against them.

  • We cannot oppose it, for by so doing we fight against Omnipotence, but we can forestall it by doing willingly, and of our own accord, that very thing which experience comes to teach us.

  • Fate, although largely self-created, is really the Divine purpose of life: therefore, to resist it is to fight against God.

  • Even the Hessian, though hired to fight against her, may live to bless his defeat; and England, condemning the viciousness of its government, rejoice in its miscarriage.

  • We never had so small an army to fight against, nor so fair an opportunity of final success as now.

  • When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.

  • After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

  • He had to fight against a faction of interested men, assailed by abuse, thwarted by opposition, and opposed secretly by at least one of the colleagues sent to support him.


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