Now the two sides are battling it out in court amid a flurry of injunctions.
The winners will face either Argentina or Croatia who are battling it out in Buenos Aires.
Leicester and Toulouse are now likely to be the teams battling it out for top spot.
Optimists and pessimists have been battling it out since the Carter malaise era of the late 1970s.
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There can be as many five different well-funded players battling it out for the same small niche.
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So I don't buy the theory that this result shows three party factions battling it out.
"All these different words are battling it out against synonyms, variant spellings and related words, " says Mr. Tenenbaum.
The three month long job search featured 20 candidates battling it out in a series of Twitter challenges.
Victoria Beckham and Naomi Campbell are battling it out as the most powerful women of New York Fashion Week.
All of the big players, and even some not so big players, are battling it out to become the universal, centralized data platform.
So we'll have this running tally of who's winning the election, at least in terms of battling it out in this cool new game.
For several years, Celebrex has been battling it out with Vioxx, a similar drug from Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people).
With each match lasting up to five days, the closing ceremony would be long over before the teams finished battling it out for a place on the podium.
As their children are battling it out on the field of play, parents are engaged in a battle of their own, carefully developing a social hierarchy amongst themselves.
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Squash will be battling it out with the likes of softball, roller sports and wakeboarding to gain admission, representing the last chance for David to fulfill her golden dream.
Tosic increases manager Sir Alex Ferguson's options on the left wing with Ryan Giggs and Nani already battling it out in that position although in recent weeks Ji-sung Park has also played there.
There was then a full year of committee hearings at the Council of Ministers, with officials from the different member states, including Defra in the UK, battling it out to reach a "common position".
Obama will have to face increased criticism from Republican presidential hopefuls, battling it out ahead of coming primary elections, which include Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, among others.
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Baseball has more inventory than any sport and with the national cable sports networks Fox Sports One, ESPN and NBC Sports battling it out for supremacy over couch potatoes, MLB was in a particularly strong negotiating position.
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And I think that comes from the contrast between these two people really just having very different approaches and influences and kind of battling it out and coming out with this kind of inspired product as a result.
But Sharapova insists the women's game is on an upward curve, with players like Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova and Serena Williams battling it out for major honors, and a new generation of talented youngsters snapping at their heels.
There's a lot going on within it, and you can tell that there - it's not surprising after you hear that to realize that there's a couple of different people kind of battling it out with committed opinions in the studio.
Quins came out battling after the interval and an Evans try and accurate kicking from the fly-half brought the scores level.
In Narberth, Pembrokeshire, residents are reported to be battling to keep water out of their homes, and roads in the area are flooded.
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In the most improved category James Heyes, nine, from Upham C of E Primary in Southampton was singled out for battling dyspraxia - described by the Dyspraxia Foundation as an immaturity of the brain resulting in messages not being properly transmitted to the body.
Both sides, he says, are battling for ground to figure out how to negotiate a settlement.
Whether or not Iain Dowie is still in charge of the team next season remains to be seen, but Hull can certainly take the positives out of a battling final-day display and particularly the performances of youngsters Tom Cairney, Mark Cullen and Will Atkinson.
Some of their preparation consists of scuba diving, dropping quickly out of helicopters and battling in close quarters.
Here was a universe in which you might imagine Robert Scott and his men with all their equipment in packs and crates being hauled along by dog sleds, with Robert at the fore, battling his way through white-out snow to achieve the mission.
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