21.   A result is a heightened tension on a team fighting for a playoff spot.

22.   A starter fighting for his eligibility.

23.   After trying to quit smoking for two decades, he probably will not see his grandchild grow up because of the cancer fighting for his lungs.

24.   But for more than a year he led the fighting for the mountain village of Bamut, generally considered to be among the fiercest battles of the war.

25.   Chiefs runners and receivers repeatedly broke tackles as the Raiders appeared to be anything but a team fighting for the last AFC playoff spot.

26.   Chiles would spend the next seven years in the House fighting for open government.

27.   During the civil war in Yemen earlier this year the secessionist southern forces, who eventually lost, captured several Sudanese fighting for the north.

28.   Even before the fighting for Kisangani began, many in the Zairian elite had begun to take the collapse of the government as a foregone conclusion.

29.   Even worse would be to overlook the long-term effects on Chancellor, who was born fighting for his own life, and both the Adams and Carruth families.

30.   For all this, Clayton is not a sentimental practitioner, but a clear-eyed professional fighting for a starting position.