And Jed Perl has waged a sustained fight against the bad faith of treating "art as money".
In his first days here in late June, he fought through three ambushes, each lasting as long as the most sustained fight he saw in Anbar.
This apparently wasn't some frivolous-lawsuit push, but a sustained fight, in which Maes believes he was briefly knocked unconscious.
But American officials said that the United States would provide more communications training and equipment to help improve the combat effectiveness of disparate opposition forces in their widening, sustained fight against Syrian Army troops.
The wounded infantryman, a lance corporal who carried a squad automatic weapon, was struck as he crouched behind a wall, returning fire during a sustained fight in which incoming bullets were whistling and snapping just overhead, or striking the walls.
"The regime didn't seem to put up a sustained fight against the Isis attack on Palmyra, which is in and of itself concerning," said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and author of Profiling the Islamic State.
On the contrary, the gripping, all-female, London-born production that opened on Wednesday night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn has a muscular strength and ferocity guaranteed to keep everyone in the theater in sustained fight-or-flight mode.
"This will be a sustained fight and we are in the early stages".
And just as it takes a fierce and sustained fight to cure a body of cancer, it will take unwavering focus and determination to rid America of the disease of racism.
Never mind pernicious, long-standing cultural attitudes about gender, race and sexuality, climate change denial alone should teach us that even good science can't triumph over bad policy without a sustained fight.
