Hers: the steady, experienced, disciplined, battle-tested veteran, aggressive and cautious in equal measure.
"They were very, very steady in naval battles and very fast".
At the Annual Retrovirus Conference, which ended its 12th get-together last Friday in Boston, there is always an air of optimism, as new drug discoveries are revealed, and researchers report steady progress in battling HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
However, steady attrition in battles and skirmishes through Portugal and Spain, combined with a lack of political support and financial difficulties, led to a situation where the unit's imminent disbandment looked likely.
Although he breathes on his own, his lungs battle a steady barrage of infections; a feeding tube provides all his sustenance, and his muscles have contracted into short, twisted knots.
In the meantime, Ms. Rice has had to battle a steady drip of negative news: accusations about her record as a policy maker on Africa, her role as a senior State Department official in a 1998 terrorist attack on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and even her financial holdings.
But as in Brazil, Uruguay faces a daunting battle to steady its currency and service its public debt against a background of recession (now in its fourth year) and popular demands to stimulate the economy.Brazil and Uruguay have gained a respite, though pessimists will say that this will merely allow investors there to exit at a better price.
Colonel Belville's Hanoverians were fed into the battle to steady the resolve of the dragoons, and once more went to the attack.
The effective elimination half-life based on drug accumulation at steady state (Boxenbaum and Battle, 1995) was 22 38 h (mean 30 h).
Indeed, Cotto has been doing battle with a steady stream of marquee opponents in recent years, a list that includes Shane Mosley, whom Cotto defeated in 2007 to retain his W.B.A. welterweight crown, and Antonio Margarito, who took that title away from him in 2008.
