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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
And Mr Trudgill is in fighting mood.
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But Mr Koch is still fighting charges that he has cut the number of police and is embarrassed by new figures showing that assaults by teenagers have jumped by 66% since 1999, more than almost anywhere else in Germany.
Mr Gibson had been shot, fighting back, in the office of Representative Tom DeLay, where the killer ran after shooting Mr Chestnut at the building's entrance.
It would nevertheless be wrong to portray Mr O'Neill as fighting a lone rearguard action against foreign aid.
And it would let Mr Vajpayee get on with fighting an autumn election.
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