I fought like a tigress but by the time I appealed my case to the Supreme Court ( 1937 ), Mr. Roosevelt and his `` henchmen '' had done their `` dirty work '' all too well, even going so far as to attempt to `` pack '' the highest tribunal in the land in order to defeat little me.

Even during a legitimate jihad, which is fought not by a rag-tag army of misguided youth but by the state against identified aggressors, Islam has set certain principles like you can't harm the old, sick, women and children.

In the year 473, the final entry in the Chronicle mentioning Hengist or Horsa, Hengist and Esc are recorded as having fought " the Welsh ", having taken " immense booty " and the Welsh having " fled from the English like fire ".

As time went by, Ribbentrop took to restructuring the Foreign Office by creating new offices like the Agency for News Analysis which fought with the Propaganda Ministry for control of German propaganda abroad, and by creating an inner circle of loyalists, many of whom had come from the Dienststelle.

Its skull and neck structure suggest an animal that fought using high-speed impacts, much like the dall sheep, rather than locking and twisting antlers the way modern moose combat.

Much like his grandfather, Ancus did little to expand the borders of Rome and only fought war when his territories needed defending.

Many other figures, like a great part of those who fought in the Trojan and Theban wars, Menelaus, and the historical pugilist Cleomedes of Astupalaea, were also believed to have been made physically immortal, but without having died in the first place.

After this contest, Los Angeles Times sportswriter Owen Bird reported that the USC athletes " fought on like Trojans ", and the president of the university at the time, George F. Bovard, approved the name officially.

Raeder and Dönitz constantly fought over what was the proper use of the U-boats, namely to win the " tonnage war " by sinking as much as tonnage as possible, as Dönitz wanted, or win the " commerce war " by denying the Allies use of certain waterways like the North Cape route to the Soviet Union as Raeder favoured.

" Clark was an Australian Jefferson, who, like the great American Republican, fought for Australian independence ; an autonomous judiciary ; a wider franchise and lower property qualifications ; fairer electoral boundaries ; checks and balances between the judicature, legislature and executive ; modern, liberal universities ; and a Commonwealth that was federal, independent and based on natural rights.

Algeria has fought only one brief war after independence ( the Sand War, a border conflict with Morocco in 1963 ), but the country is also, like most Arab nations, formally at war with the Israel since 1948.

Yuan's sons publicly fought over the title of " Crown Prince ", and his former loyal subordinates like Duan Qirui and Xu Shichang left him one by one to create their own factions.

Just like many students and activists of his age, Teufel was angered by the Nazi regime of the previous generation, and fought to eliminate that image from Germany.

We recognize something akin to Norns, spirits who decide destinies of men ; to the seeresses, who could protect men in battle with their spells ; to the powerful female guardian spirits attached to certain families, bringing luck to youth under their protection ; even to certain women who armed themselves and fought like men, for whom there is some historical evidence from the regions round the Black Sea.

In 1977 he fought and killed a second Slayer, Nikki Wood, aboard a subway train in New York City, taking from her a black leather duster which he wears throughout his appearances on Buffy and Angel until it is destroyed in an explosion in Season Five of Angel, whereupon he gets a new one that looks exactly like the old one (" The Girl in Question ").

His son Berthold II, who like his father fought against Henry IV, inherited a lot of the lands of Rudolf's son Count Berthold of Rheinfelden in 1090 ( though not his comital title, that stayed with the family von Wetter-Rheinfelden ) and in 1092 was elected Duke of Swabia against Frederick I of Hohenstaufen.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

He then competed against more experienced boxers like Jake Rodriguez, whom he fought on December 6, 1991.

In the years that followed World War II, shadows darkened the scenery to add psychological complexity to a number of early film noir dramas, like Leave Her to Heaven, while at the same time a secret battle involving blacklisted Broken Arrow screenwriter Albert Maltz, a prominent member of the “ Hollywood Ten ," was being fought on the same dusty ground.

" Tolstoy portrays Austerlitz as an early test for Russia, one which ended badly because the soldiers fought for irrelevant things like glory or renown rather than the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at Borodino during the 1812 invasion.

The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of Augustine of Hippo though paradoxically undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace ; as a result, Baius ' heterodox-Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with Rome on questions of grace, free-will and the like.

She had many encounters with villains Spider-Man fought like Venom ( as Eddie Brock ), the Hobgoblin, Doctor Octopus, Morbius, the Chameleon ( who was imitating Anna Watson ), Tombstone, Green Goblin, the Scorpion and the Shocker.

Madero's army fought Diaz's forces with some success, and he attracted the forces of other rebel leaders like Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza, and they eventually joined together to fight Diaz.

In a similar vein, Verlaine used the expression poète maudit (" cursed poet ") in 1884 to refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke or were ignored by the critics.

He fought to the end to preserve it as a `` government of the people, by the people, for the people ''.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

His strong opposition to the transfer of Negro children to schools outside their own neighborhood, in the interest of integration, will be attacked by Negro leaders who have fought for, and achieved, this open or permissive enrollment.

The people of Katanga had fought for, and obtained, their freedom from the Communist yoke of Antoine Gizenga, and his cohorts.

but it can't remind one of the freedom that Washington and the Continental soldiers fought for.

They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;

Where Acheson had fought a gallant losing battle for the Department, Dulles fed the crocodile with his subordinates.

Roberts careened backward, his back arched, fought for balance and, failing, stumbled against the newel post at the foot of the stairs.

Hopefully, the perennial battle of Rule 22 then would be fought to a settlement once and for all.

Rumors flew from lip to lip that Fidel Castro was on his way to Havana, coming from the mountains where he had fought Batista for five years.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.

Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Ajax often fought in tandem with his brother Teucer, known for his skill with the bow.

Sometime before 600 BC, Mytilene fought Athens for control of Sigeion and Alcaeus was old enough to participate in the fighting.

A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

During the civil war following the death of Eric III of Denmark in 1146, Absalon travelled abroad to study theology in Paris, while Esbern fought for Valdemar's ascension to the throne.

Adhemar negotiated with Alexius I Comnenus at Constantinople, reestablished at Nicaea some discipline among the crusaders, fought a crucial role at the Battle of Dorylaeum and was largely responsible for sustaining morale during the siege of Antioch through various religious rites including fasting and special observances of holy days.

He next fought for the sovereignty of Provence against Raymond Berenger III, and not till September 1125 did the war end in an amicable agreement.

During their time on the council, HRP representatives fought for measures including pioneering antidiscrimination ordinances, measures decriminalizing marijuana possession, and a rent-control ordinance ; many of these remain in effect in modified form.