Nancy Lanza had home-schooled Adam for several years after she had "battled" with school system officials over how to educate her highly-intelligent but socially awkward son, her sister-in-law Marsha said.
According to Candy, the DeWitts have battled with a mental health system unwilling to get her son the help he needs.
And over the last few years the two competing systems have battled for superiority.
They've battled each other for exclusives, with system-loyal gamers (the blinkered fools that they are) arguing the toss about frame rates and resolution comparisons in piss-boiling bouts of mostly pointless performance one-upmanship.
As the pioneers of flood mitigation systems, the Dutch have battled floods for centuries as they protect a country that lies partly below sea level.
Mr. Solzhenitsyn outlived by nearly 17 years the Soviet state and system he had battled through years of imprisonment, ostracism and exile.
But since Google introduced its own mobile operating system, Android, the companies have battled over everything mobile, from patents to ads and apps.
So we did have to battle a bit.
"I've been battling the system for 10 years, and now I am the system," Mr. Barkley said, grinning and throwing up his hands.
Jedi Power Battles has a primitive leaderboard system, whereby each character earns experience points from battle that are totted up and spent on new moves at the end of each level.
