• Allied aircrew who flew on such missions believed they fought for a just cause.

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  • During his tenure, Smith's floppy-haired, bow tie-wearing Time Lord has fought enemies such as the Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and the Silence.

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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.

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  • Big trials such as this one are often fought through the press before fizzling out.

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  • Such a crusade would be better fought through state legislatures rather than the courts, but at least it ensures that the subject of gun-control remains visible.

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  • The All Blacks selected a strong line-up in anticipation of a closely-fought encounter, but such was their total dominance they could allow the faultless Carter and captain Richie McCaw to leave the field before an hour had elapsed on the clock.

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  • Michael Dukakis, as a solidly liberal Democratic governor, fought tooth and nail against such bills throughout the 1980s.

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  • Many slaves, such as Samuel Sharpe in Jamaica, fought for their freedom.

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  • However his progress in the professional ranks had stalled to such an extent that he has only fought 15 times in six years and had been considering quitting the sport.

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  • Campaigners such as Mr Peskett, who have fought for 10 years under the banner of the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) to save the RAE site, must now move on to phase two of their plan: restoration.

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  • After eight months of manoeuvring, jostling, cruising clear at the top and lagging off the pace, it comes down to this: a 90-minute shootout at the Theatre of Dreams to decide who will be bestowed with glory and who, after such a sacrifice, will have ultimately fought in vain.

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  • Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein is wanted for actions from August 2003 to March 2004 in Darfur, where rebels have fought government forces and allied militiamen such as the Janjaweed since 2003.

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  • They've specifically fought to protect flame retardant chemicals such as chlorinated Tris, which is so dangerous that companies voluntarily stopped using it in children's pajamas more than 30 years ago.

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  • BC, on the upper reaches of the Euphrates basin, Anatolian peoples such as the Hurrites and the Hittites met, fought, conquered or were conquered by local tribes and outposts of the Mesopotamian empires, leaving behind hordes of artefacts that are still being found today.

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  • There are some obvious choices -- Nobel Prize winners such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, who have tirelessly fought for human rights, or those like Wangari Maathai, who have helped change attitudes towards the environment.

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  • Such a government could have been formed sooner, but the parties fought tooth and nail for every post.

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  • Even assuming gains for the UMP in June, Sarkozy could face a hard slog dismantling entrenched labor protections -- such as five weeks of guaranteed vacation -- that unions have fought tooth-and-nail to keep.

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  • Soniya says it was a "horrific" time which led to her having a breakdown that December, but she fought to continue Kray's therapy and has become such an expert in his recovery that she considers herself her son's personal therapist now.

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  • During the last 69 years, she has fought a range of villains and also appeared in other comic series such as Justice League.

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  • They included those who fought in World War II, along those who served during more recent military campaigns such as Malaya, Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  • As Zimmerman points out, some people make these claims for self promotion to help their political careers such as the case with Richard Blumenthal who ran for Senate in Connecticut telling audiences he had fought in Vietnam when he had not.

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  • That, after all, is the platform he fought the election on, though it must be said, President Sarkozy had not been such a great champion of a smaller state.

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  • But there would be some cost to such a memorial today, since the right of many of those named to be there would be fought over by their partisans.

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  • If most Sunnis in rebellious areas seem highly unlikely to vote, the prospect for places such as Sadr City, home to some 1m poor Shias in eastern Baghdad, where followers of Mr Sadr fought fiercely against the Americans last year, is still in doubt.

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