1.   A bitter battle is fought as to whether it should be six or five or four.

2.   But a press backlash did get into gear, leaving a handful of diehard music writers to fight a bitter battle.

3.   The agreement effectively ends a bitter legal battle in two states between Mrs Harriman and the heirs.

4.   There was a bitter battle over the building of the new airport.

5.   The couple are locked in a bitter battle for custody of the children.

6.   They were about to become locked in a bitter legal battle for the future of the child they both loved.

7.   An effort to press contempt charges against Freeh and Reno would spark a bitter partisan battle.

8.   And even after the last bitter battle was done, critics on both sides assailed the leaders for even the smallest compromise.

9.   And so this bitter battle goes on, complex and awash in subjective shades of gray.

10.   As a result, the racetracks drew even in what has become a bitter battle over the future of gambling in Arizona.