And then, after a lingering pre-fight stare-down that felt more like a contractual obligation than an attempt to introduce the wobblies, he politely shook hands with his opponent and headed to his hotel to rest up while everyone else worked the room.
We will stick to a strong stance against Apple during the lingering legal fights.
Also because, more recently, the feminist movement has given so many of us the motivation and the means to look into ourselves and recognize and fight lingering biases.
This same passion for language and ideas defined Freedman's leadership at Dartmouth, where he deftly countered lingering anti-Semitism, fought entrenched interests to open the way for women and minorities, reformed and revitalized the curriculum, and boldly reconceived the school's campus.
Woods, 37, fought lingering back pain while helping the U.S. team secure the Presidents Cup victory in Dublin, Ohio, nine days ago.
Republicans and other critics say the Holder nomination is not simply a proxy fight over lingering wounds from the Clinton era.
Officials in Obama administration and others outside, interviewed in recent months about President Obama's counterterrorism record, said real progress had been made against Al Qaeda but also acknowledged lingering concerns about a fight that has shaped the United States' approach to much of the world for the last decade.
This was a tough Democratic primary fight, so lingering bad feelings are natural.
And even this year, when I opted to go as Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to a super heterosexual party, I had to fight off lingering worries that maybe I should've worn something "more flattering".
I think Farah-Bolt is going to end up as one of those lingering questions: "Would you rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses or a horse-sized duck?" It's fun to debate, but relatively unlikely to happen.
