Fighting in example sentence

And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.

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It's not something everyone can get behind the way they get behind helping Haiti, or ending AIDS, or fighting a famine.

There is a side that thinks that peace is the end of fighting, and there is a side that thinks that peace is the arrival of schools and jobs.

The doctors who are not fighting, the artists, the students, the men who refuse to pick up the guns, they are, too, excluded from the negotiating tables.

For the sake of the kids, for the sake of the family, for the sake of the community, for the sake of the future, let's stop fighting for a moment and start talking.

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