1.   Unfortunately for the advertisers, the first battle has been over the least defensible product.

2.   Your first battle will be changing the routine, gently but firmly so that everyone knows that things will be different from now on.

3.   The prize awaiting the winner of that one is a first round battle with former world indoor singles champion John Price of Wales.

4.   Badme, a small town largely overlooked by both countries before the war, has taken on symbolic importance as the site of the first battle.

5.   Because while this may have been the first major battle of World War III, it may be the last one that involves only conventional, non-nuclear weapons.

6.   Before the end of the next day, the first battles of the Revolutionary War would be fought at Lexington and Concord.

7.   A few days after the Mexican priest had issued his cry for revolt, his swelling band of rebels was facing its first major battle.

8.   But it was also a strange ending to what had been the first true battle that Jones had been in as a professional.

9.   But that was just the first battle.