The election in February had left Mr Rafsanjani fighting for the last of Tehran's 30 seats.
While Mr Rumsfeld is fighting for his job, Mr Snow can crow that America's economy over the past nine months has grown at its fastest pace in almost two decades.
On other areas of public service reform, too, Mr Brown has preferred to snipe from the sidelines rather than explain his own thinking: when Mr Blair was fighting for differential university tuition fees, Mr Brown allowed the impression to grow that he was hostile to the proposal, but offered no sensible alternative of his own.
Mr Rudd's campaign strategy has been to avoid fighting Mr Howard on economic management, the government's biggest strength.
And on July 28th Mr Weld resigned as governor in order to dedicate himself full-time to fighting Mr Helms, leaving Massachusetts to Paul Cellucci, his loyal lieutenant-governor.
On the other hand, Mr Bauer clearly has a fighting chance against Mr Forbes, if not against Mr Bush, and he clearly likes showing the rich kids what he's made of.
Mr Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces claims he sexually assaulted two women this year.
But while Mr Osborne is fighting to change some details, the prospects of a big reversal are slim.
Mr Badawi is fighting for survival after his coalition's poor showing against the opposition in elections in March.
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The Financial Times said on 20 April that "numerous sources... believe Mr Zhou is fighting for his job".
With Mr Kabila now fighting several rebel groups, he eventually agreed to share power in a 2003 peace deal.
The couple were married in Cornwall during the 1983 general election campaign, when Mr Hamilton was fighting Tatton for the first time.
Now Mr Lanier is fighting to preserve Houston's affirmative-action programme, which keeps 20% of the city's contracts for businesses owned by minority groups and women.
The National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobbying group in Washington, is fighting Mr. Obama's health-care law in a lawsuit that is now before the Supreme Court.
Rebels have been fighting Mr Assad's government for 21 months.
Mr Hussein, fighting for his life, has quietly accelerated the repatriation of his remaining Iranian prisoners of war: fewer than 1, 000 are thought to be still in Iraqi hands.
Mr Mpofu is still in court fighting his suspension, but Mr Zikalala has gone back to his job.
Both Mr Clinton and Mr Barak seem to believe that, once the fighting has subsided, Mr Arafat, bruised and impoverished, will be obliged to address the same proposals for a final settlement that were put before him, and rejected, at Camp David.
Mr. Wolf designed fighting styles for battle scenes in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Mr. Morris is fighting the charges and is slated to go to trial next year.
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Mr. Obama is fighting three wars simultaneously in Iraq, Afghanistan, and against al Qaeda.
With his troops and what materials (including 2, 000 books) he could transport, Mr Masoud made a fighting retreat to the Panjshir.
Mr. Morris is fighting criminal charges against him related to the probe.
Mr Barak is now fighting to prevent the disaffection spreading to another of his motley coalition partners, the Russian immigrant party, Yisrael B'Aliyah.
During a lull in the fighting, Mr. Welch drew a sketch of the first man he killed, an Iraqi soldier he shot in the neck.
On site the casino has set up special photo booths so guests can get their pictures taken with a high-tech image of a hooded Mr. Zou in fighting stance.
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With Mr Fonseka, his only serious challenger, out of the way and the rest of the opposition preoccupied with leadership struggles and intra-party fighting, Mr Rajapaksa is in an enviably stable position.
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