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- verb Present participle of
wage .
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Examples
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He took over at Ipswich towards the end of last season and has spent this term waging a battle against relegation from the Championship, with recent reports suggesting time is running out for him at Portman Road.
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Crowley goes on to cite the Obama administration's "Orwellian coldness and efficiency" in "waging waged war on those who have had the gall to disagree with it."
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Failing of rapid success in waging a sheer political propaganda, and finding that they were alienating the most intelligent and most easily organized portion of the voters, the socialists lessoned from the experience and turned their energies upon the trade-union movement.
THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010
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Crowley goes on to cite the Obama administration's "Orwellian coldness and efficiency" in "waging waged war on those who have had the gall to disagree with it."
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What puts all these stories together is one narrative - Leslie Byrne is once again waging a hateful negative campaign.
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This is what we can expect when the judiciary decides to usurp the role of the executive branch in waging war.
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The Guerilla Gardening website has a friendly though subversive sort of tone, as it has gone from tracking the activities of “illicit cultivation around London” to being a “growing arsenal for anyone who is interested in waging war against the neglect of public space.”
GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood | Inhabitat 2008
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They know how bad war is and the gravity in waging it.
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The Religious Reich's biggest weapon in waging the culture war has been their ability to raise a lot of money and run aggressive campaigns against what they call "the radical homosexual agenda."
November 2006 2006
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Do you have any cases of prosecution for treason for publishing material merely unflattering the United States 'conduct in waging war?
Balkinization 2006
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