If you're still doggedly subjecting yourself to another experimental therapy, then you're "battling on"; if you've started preparations for end-of-life care, then you're preparing to "lose your brave fight" or "finally give in" to an unconquerable enemy.
WHILE the insurgency shows no sign of abating, especially in the mainly Sunni triangle where a good fifth of Iraqis live, Iraq's interim government has officially started preparations for the general election due by the end of January.
Staff at Castle Stuart, which only fully opened in 2010, have already started preparations for the 2012 Scottish Open.
A former officer in the Ukraine and Soviet army, turned self-defense commander, Sych says the Samoobrona have already started preparations for a guerilla war, stashing food, medical equipment, and other supplies out in the fields.
Russian Space Agency officials announced today that they had started launching preparations for the first element, an unmanned maneuver and storage unit named Zarya.
In 1981, preparations had started for the arrival of 96 American Tomahawk Cruise missiles at Greenham common air base in Berkshire.
Soon afterward the Carthaginians,JJJ learning that the consuls, Marcus Aemilius and Marcus Junius, had started for Liguria, made preparations to march upon Rome.
That sentiment is grounded in the number of companies currently rumored to have filed or started preparation for a public debut.
The White House and a number of federal agencies have started advanced preparations for a partial government shutdown, as President Trump and congressional Democrats appear unlikely to resolve their fight over a border wall before some government funding lapses at week's end.
I've started the preparations for a two-headed deer and another deer with copious amounts of antlers and horns that will be protruding from its head.
