They weren't selling their undergarments in vending machines or wielding katana for fights to the finish.
It is being forced into a new game plan as it fights to survive.
Mr Amos said the assessors had been "invaluable" as the league fights to improve its image.
But in the end, they want the fights to result in good things, not bad things.
She led fights to defend the public display of the Ten Commandments and to ban same-sex marriage.
G20, a club of developing countries that fights to open rich-country markets through the World Trade Organisation.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars in legal fights to keep generic versions of their blockbuster drugs off the market.
Even then, the icy swamp fights to reassert itself, pushing up through cracks in the frozen asphalt roads of the town centre.
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Small wonder that the major companies spend millions of dollars in legal fights to keep generic versions of their biggest drugs off the market.
The high quality management is likely to give SanDisk a competitive edge as it fights to maintain its large presence in the flash industry.
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Buying back the ancestral home, though, is a long way behind the immediate aims of the Trust as it fights to keep Dundee FC alive.
After leading losing fights to use Chinese standards in 3G technology and wireless mobile standards, China is trying to get out front early on IoT.
The Institute for Justice--a public-interest law firm that fights to protect free speech--is challenging laws in several states that effectively inhibit free speech in this way.
So as McCain fights to hold on to states President Bush won in 2004, he needs to peel off states that currently appear to clearly be in Obama's column.
The car is special, a crucial step for Lexus as the company fights to stay abreast of the alternative-drivetrain wars currently being waged at Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz.
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The long-cycle player fights to fly above The Street noise and asks himself how long it takes before a positive spin builds up as it did with these financial stocks.
There are compelling fights to be made after Guerrero.
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Just put the usual fights to one side.
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NeuLion now provides similar services for other professional sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA. A recent partnership with the UFC lets mixed-martial arts fans purchase a series of fights to watch with more camera angles, audio feeds, and interactive options than they could otherwise.
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In an interview with the news service today, Falcone said he is mulling a voluntary bankruptcy filing to protect LightSquared from creditors while the company fights to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling that effectively shut the service down before it had a chance to get going.
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The linearity of the core story becomes clear during a second playthrough, but here the relatively short duration of each episode is a strength: it is possible to take different sides and pick different fights to elicit different responses over the episode without finding the situational repetition tedious over these short stretches.
It is reasonable to expect further fights specific to the other types of content that Google is now compiling for its users.
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Pacquiao-Hatton is the first of what figures to be only a handful of PPV events in 2009, with more fights moved to the company's regular HBO channel.
The Bolton fighter probably knew that he had done little to silence the doubters who question his boxing maturity, after 18 professional fights, to challenge for a world title.
The lesson, said supporters of the mayor's effort, is that Mr. Bloomberg likely needs to win a few important fights at the ballot box in order to win fights in Congress.
But you know what, there are going to be some fights sometimes, because there are fights that need to be had to bring about change and push through the resistance of the status quo.
Stephens will be busy in the coming weeks as he fights extradition to Sweden for his client.
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