51.   Federal troops have been engaged in fierce battles against the guerrillas for the past five weeks, seeking to drive them from the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

52.   Federal troops have been engaged in fierce battles against the guerrillas since last month, seeking to drive them from the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

53.   Fierce battles were also frequently portrayed.

54.   Fierce battles erupted again last week and the important city of Jalalabad fell to a conservative Islamic movement, the Taliban.

55.   For them, it means a fierce competitive battle.

56.   Foster, a gynecologist who has performed abortions, has become the center of a fierce battle between anti-abortion and pro-choice forces.

57.   Graham says that the belligerent reprisal doctrine has given the administration the military flexibility the Pentagon demanded in what was a fierce internal battle.

58.   He talks about the task at hand, an expected fierce battle against maybe the greatest offensive line in the last decade of college football.

59.   His efforts have outraged the publishers of Archie Comics and ignited a legal battle so fierce that even a jaded federal judge has called it acrimonious.

60.   His tenure as president was overshadowed by a fierce battle waged by the Newhouse family for ownership of the magazine.