She and Willingham had not fought, and were preparing for the holiday.
Recalling the incident, Mrs Doherty said someone would have been killed if the family's pet labrador, Troy, had not fought the dog off.
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Veteran Oboh, who had not fought for three years, refused to step into the ring less than an hour before the scheduled start of the fight.
It might have been even harsher, had Mr Geithner not fought off calls by White House aides who wanted to, for instance, set firm lending targets.
McCullough, who has not fought since losing to Scott Harrison in March 2003, believes it could be the first step towards another crack at the big time.
Earl, who has carded notable British title victories over the likes of Bobby Vanzie and big-punching Steve Murray, has not fought since losing a tilt at the WBO interim title against Michael Katsidis in February.
The fact he's fought only four times since beating Ricky Hatton more than five years ago and has not fought in a year leads some in boxing to believe he may have as much trouble with ring rust as he has with Guerrero.
Drop-offs from last year include boxer Floyd Mayweather (has not fought since December 2007), NFL players Ben Roethlisberger and Dwight Freeney (both made the 2008 list after inking contracts with big signing bonuses) and Formula One driver Fernando Alonso (just missed the cut).
Mr Urban gallantly attempts to show that Wellington would not have fought at Salamanca without reassurances gleaned from Scovell's work, but the claim is not convincing.
In sum, the article is disheartening reading for those worried that climate change is not being fought fast enough.
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Forty years later, when Ronald Reagan approached the cold war as a battle to be not only fought but also won, he was following a Churchillian strategy.
The first is that the next general election might not be fought until 2015, and the official growth forecasts for that year and the previous one have been revised upwards.
In March 2007, Pakistani forces based in the Wana region backed Mullah Nazir's offensive against ethnic Uzbek fighters, who not only fought the Pakistanis, but were blamed for the killing of more than 200 elders of the native Wazir tribe.
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These are not people who fought in the war in Chechnya, they're not people who had any close, proximate relationship to that conflict.
Elections, to summarise this calculation, are fought not between competing answers to the same question but rather between competing questions.
And as Connor reminds us in a victory for historical accuracy, not every colonial fought for the United States.
For years, he has fought not only his disease, but also the crippling side effects of the drugs used to treat it.
If this all doesn't do the trick, the 2012 election could be fought not against the backdrop of the fallout from the last economic crisis, but the impact of the next one.
It is being fought out not in arcane commentaries in party newspapers but in open debate.
"I don't think it would have been a free country had these men and women not gone over and fought, " she said.
The only real fight the Republicans ever fought was not which party would govern the county, but which Republican would be the minority commissioner.
But I am not impressed that Lance fought against his cancer.
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As such, it has fought hard not just for nuclear loan guarantees but also for tougher clean air standards that give it a leg up over those utilities that rely on coal.
One should not be too surprised that Turkey fought back as it did.
But judges, even if they have fought political corruption, should not become elected politicians.
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
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But, although Wigan fought back, they could not find a way through and the crucial score came instead from Orford, who wriggled free from Roberts' tackle to grab his second try.
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