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They claim that they are battling a dastardly conspiracy.

I have been battling a stubborn cold for the last three weeks.

Western Media Is Obsessed With Kurdish Female Fighters Battling ISIS Global Voices

The banks battling against a strong wind in the USA several years later.

Mexico is experiencing unprecedented violence as drug cartels are battling over distribution routes.

We will continue battling the military on this issue until reform occurs, she says.

Independent Lithuania, although it would soon be battling the Wars of Independence, became a reality.

All were battling recession and high unemployment, only to find themselves unable to finance their deficits.

Come on, son. Quit battling the forces of evil for ten minutes and come to dinner!

The issue could soon become a concern for Saudi Arabia, which is battling Al Qaeda within its kingdom.

Claims that militants arrived in three taxicabs don't square with other reports about the number of armed men now battling Grozny police.

In my last 18 months as a lawyer, battling small and large scale corruption, including the one perpetrated by India's biggest corporate scamster.

With Russian backed separatists and maybe even Russian troops battling government forces in Ukraine, the specter of war is once again stalking the continent.

If it's battling hypothermia, its organs can't develop normally, resulting in a range of health problems from diabetes, to heart disease, to low I.Q.

It was on a day in April that Galeano died this year at the age of 74 after battling lung cancer for several months.

Moreover, every election has at least one story of officials battling through snow or jungle to ensure that the preferences of remote constituents are duly recorded.

I think in general you're battling a very fundamental human tendency, which is to say, I'm here today, and so now is more important than later.

In Egypt, supporters of the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood are still battling the army and security forces, which deposed him in July.

I don't sleep that much, and I've come to this thing about, like, not sleeping much as being a great virtue, after years of kind of battling it as being a terrible detriment, or something.

CAMBRIDGE The US Federal Reserve is battling with members of Congress over a proposed law, the Federal Reserve Accountability and Transparency Act, that would require the Fed to use a formal rule to guide monetary policy.

You have comfort, irreverence, and social commentary, not only battling it out in our society, but you literally have two establishment shows Gunsmoke and Gomer Pyle in 1969 are the number two and number three rated television shows.

Kashin also mocks the popular theory that Anonymous International represents one of the so called Kremlin towers, referring to the theory that its leaks are aimed at weakening one of the several interest groups battling for dominance in the Russian state and economy.

The Peshawar massacre was not the first time that the world s leading state sponsor of terrorism became a terror victim. But the attack has underscored how the contradiction between battling one set of terror groups while shielding others for cross border undertakings has hobbled the Pakistani state.

Only those born in Tigana before the invasion can hear or speak its name, or remember it as it was as far as everyone else is concerned, that area of the country has always been an insignificant part of a neighbouring province, hence the rebels are battling for the very soul of their country.

One of the skis just clipped a pressure ridge at the end of the runway, banking. I could see into the cockpit, Troy battling the controls, and he just took one hand off, reached back, flipped a switch on the roof of the cockpit, and it was the fasten seat belt sign you can see on the wall.

If we are to shift paradigms, if we are to make breakthroughs, if we are to destroy myths, we need to create an environment in which expert ideas are battling it out, in which we're bringing in new, diverse, discordant, heretical views into the discussion, fearlessly, in the knowledge that progress comes about, not only from the creation of ideas, but also from their destruction and also from the knowledge that, by surrounding ourselves by divergent, discordant, heretical views.