11.   And if things get out of hand, the swollen Palestinian police could join the battle, rather than prevent it.

12.   And so the battle was joined.

13.   And so the battle is joined.

14.   And the younger generation of the anti-abortion movement seems to be joining the battle with strategies unimagined by their more experienced allies.

15.   And, ominously, the speechmakers were saying not that an enemy had been crushed, but that a battle had been joined.

16.   As a result, neither major party candidate is joining battle very vigorously on foreign affairs.

17.   After almost three months in which he played a largely passive role, the president joined that battle Tuesday night, and its outcome will determine his electoral fate.

18.   But he left the pulpit to join the battle against drugs on the Lower East Side.

19.   But if Lott was trying to escalate a rhetorical war on homosexuality, the battle was joined some time ago here in South Carolina.

20.   But now the real battle is joined.