1.   They fought to end the segregation of public schools.

2.   As for taxpayers, many white Americans have forebears who, far from condoning or profiting from slavery, fought to end it in the Civil War.

3.   Alarcon, a former Bucaram ally, accepted the designation, and vowed to fight to end corruption and poverty in the South American country.

4.   But this nation also has a long, bloody and glorious history of fighting to end slavery and its ugly aftermath.

5.   Fought to end border violence.

6.   Nixon fought to end state funding of that plan.

7.   Tallies show that Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which is fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland, is polling well.

8.   The abuse of eminent domain has become a national plague, and the Institute for Justice is fighting to end it.

9.   The bikers are fighting to end those seven-year-old restrictions, and at first the freeholders seemed willing to yield.

10.   The Hutu guerrillas fled Rwanda fearing retribution after their tribal kinsmen slaughtered thousands of Tutsi, and they are fighting to end what they see as a Tutsi oligarchy.