11.   That town, once a Northern Alliance stronghold, fell to the Taliban last year after a ferocious battle.

12.   The debate has become a ferocious battle of complex statistics in which the same numbers can mean different things to people on different sides of the issue.

13.   The lawsuit is the latest skirmish in the ferocious battle between the companies in both the marketplace and the courtroom.

14.   The NYSE is locked in a ferocious battle with the Nasdaq Stock Market to convince companies to list their stocks with the exchange.

15.   The StarLink controversy has generated a ferocious lobbying battle in Washington.

16.   After a ferocious overnight battle that lasted into Thursday morning, the Taliban religious army regained territory lost earlier to former government troops, said foreign reporters and witnesses.

17.   Among the many victims of the ferocious battle for Grozny are young children wounded by shrapnel.

18.   Both sides are heavily armed and have been fighting ferocious battles on several fronts.

19.   Fighter jets on Saturday roared from Kabul toward northern Afghanistan, where the Taliban religious army waged a ferocious battle against their opponents.

20.   For four years, rival Islamic factions have waged ferocious battles for control of Kabul.