"I always thought that our guys would battle to the end," Lemaire said.
In its immediate aftermath, Labour MPs declared that they would battle to preserve membership of the single market.
Japan's new prime minister was certainly generous with his promises, pledging that his "ceaseless reform cabinet" would battle to change politics, the economy, society and government.
In junior high school, in the lunch room, we all used to make a beat on the table and we would battle to that beat.
As the president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the capital, and parliament voted to strip him of his powers, he likened the actions of his opponents to those of the Nazis and said he would battle to stay in power.
Frustrated that spending might increase faster than Mr. Bush has proposed, conservative Republicans said they would battle to hold the line, even if it meant a showdown between the House and the Senate over the budget.
In the local bookstore in Gstaad, where they both went skiing, they would battle to get their books the best spot in the window.A decade ago, Mr Galbraith lamented that old age brought an annoying affliction he called the "Still Syndrome".
When my mother was out trudging the 27 miles along the rutted tracks to gather the scrapings of mould from the bakery or to trap a diseased rat, Granny Trill or Granny Wallon would battle to drip-feed me their fermented turnips, hand-squeezed through their soiled muslin drawers.
