For the time being, though, Mr. Beilin and Mr. Rubinstein are fighting a lonely fight in the Israeli bureacracy.
Ah, well, she seems like the right person to be fighting the lonely fight.
That leaves the central bank fighting a lonely battle.
Those trying to raise the issue of Katyn felt that they were fighting a lonely battle.
Khan, who opposed the Partition of India, is now largely forgotten by his own people, and is fighting a lonely battle.
And while Foster talks tough, he lacks the bitter eloquence of Chandler's postwar knight, fighting his lonely battles in a world that has lost its values.
Federal agencies are reportedly resisting the idea and Congress is hesitant to fund it, leaving the president fighting a lonely battle to keep his campaign promise.
They are fighting a lonely battle against a rich, corrupt and entrenched political class, braving occasional death threats to try to clean up one of the world's filthiest polities.
Irritation with Mr Obama may fade though perhaps rather slowly for both Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, stood up for the third time, and Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister, fighting a lonely battle at home for the TPP.
FOR more than a decade, physicists running an experiment called DAMA, about 1,400 metres under Gran Sasso, a mountain near L'Aquila in central Italy, have been fighting a lonely battle.
