"Never start a fight, but always finish it, " she tells her son early on, and you can believe she walks the talk.
Some nights, especially when gauchos from out of town or some disoriented travelling salesman turned up, Pereda felt a powerful desire to start a fight.
The family, Paiutes who live in the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, was pumping gas at a Quick Stop on their way to Reno when several men pulled up in a blue car and tried to start a fight.
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In some parts of the American West, you can start a bar fight by mentioning a forestry practice called salvage logging.
The witness, the first accuser to take the stand, said Matt Sandusky looked "nervous" when he saw that Jerry Sandusky was about to start a soap fight.
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There's a wonderful scene where three guys who have never had a fight, who clearly never been in a fight before, start throwing punches at each other.
For a start, such reforms would pitch him into a fight with the French unions.
Wherever it is based, the start-up has picked a tough fight.
The 39-year-old striker has yet to start a Premier League game this season but will stay and fight for his place.
Last year he attempted to kick-start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and picked a fight with Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
Mr Blunkett told his audience that, frankly, he had been wrong in trying to drive through important reforms too quickly and, rather than pick a fight, he wanted to make a fresh start in building trust.
It had already been a goofy start for the Tuesday press conference promoting Mayweather's May 5 fight against Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas.
"We believe in our ability to be in the fight for the titles right to the end and this time, we have been in that fight since the start, which has not been the case for a while, " said Domenicali.
But as we fight the current crisis, we must also start the process of ensuring a crisis like this never happens again.
After a fight against relegation from the Championship last season Watford made a bright start to the 2010-11 campaign but now sit 15th in the table.
The reason for this is when their immune systems finally encounter a virus later in life, the cells meant to fight the infection start dividing really fast.
In my mind now I'm starting to switch off a little bit and starting to think maybe the fight's not happening, which is a bad thing because once I start switching off mentally then if it does happen I'm not going to be fully on my game.
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Tiny start-ups are ramping up their recruiting efforts, too, though it is far from a fair fight.
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"I want to go out and fight for a better set of choices for our country, and I want to start building a national organization right away to help me in that effort, " Kerry said.
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