21.   Afterward, his lawyer said, he was fighting to hold back tears.

22.   After the game, in a champagne-soaked locker room, safety Ricky Parker unsuccessfully fought back tears of joy and the players happily mugged for the cameras.

23.   But as we drove south, I swallowed back tears.

24.   But his wife, Gia, was fighting a losing battle to hold back tears as she sat next to her husband.

25.   But if your golf game improves along with it, no one on the PGA Tour will blink back tears of regret.

26.   But on Tuesday, as he spoke about his brother, Tito, who died on the flight, he kept angrily fighting back tears.

27.   By the end of his prepared statement, Cleaver was blinking back tears.

28.   Choking up and struggling to hold back tears, Ms. Shaw appeared to give her testimony reluctantly.

29.   Choking back tears, both women, who had studied at the university in Waco, Texas, said they would like to return to Afghanistan.

30.   Choking back tears, Kathleen Bell testified that Fuhrman told her in their first conversation that African-Americans should be killed and that interracial romance disgusted him.