battling

• “Schumacher showed little interest in battling for a podium spot, however, driving defensively the rest of the way to keep Button behind him.”

  Mark Webber leads Red Bull to victory at F1's Spanish GP

• “The tip-off has been heralded as a major intelligence coup, but the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.”

  The Wall Street Journal: World Watch

• “But the detainee's shifting loyalties to al Qaeda over the years also underscore the challenges in battling the group.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Source of Bomb-Plot Tip-Off Is Named

• “She held out her arms for him to place the wrap about her -- her valiant little arms that were so wise and steel-like in battling with the breakers, and that yet were such just mere-woman's arms, round and warm and white, delicious as a woman's arms should be, with the canny muscles, masking under soft-roundness of contour and fine smooth skin, capable of being flexed at will by the will of her.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “It's conceivable that Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels could begin battling for the starting job at the outset of training camp for a second consecutive year only to have Favre show up after the Mankato portion of the practices are complete.”

  Minnesota Vikings Team Report

• “Come Thursday night, at the Boston Park Plaza hotel, the 28-year old Mr. Myerson has enlisted 28 amateur boxers to fight three two-minute rounds apiece—separated, of course, by round-marking, placard-waving "ring girls"—all in the name of battling cancer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Boxers Fighting Against Cancer

• “Also similar to the civil war, the US is again battling over states 'rights.”

  DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'

• “Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Ben S. Bernanke deserves another term as Federal Reserve Chairman based on his success in battling the financial crisis, said Princeton University Economist Paul Krugman, a winner of the Nobel Prize.”

  Change that didn't happen (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “The obesity epidemic is threatening national security, so schools — which are on the front lines in battling the problem — need to boot out junk food and serve healthier snacks and meals, a group of retired military leaders is announcing today.”

  Facing unfit recruits, military leaders target food in schools

• “Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues, shared her powerful story of inspiration and courage in battling cancer.”

  Forbes: Highlights From Maria Shriver's The Women's Conference

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