1.   Three hamlets on the fringe of a fast expanding new town are fighting to avoid being swallowed up by new development.

2.   However, on Saturday night, fighting to avoid a seventh game, the Devils came up with their own heroes, their own images.

3.   McConnell spent the better part of the summer fighting to avoid holding public hearings.

4.   On the local side, community banks are fighting to avoid being muscled out of the market by a big bank from outside the region.

5.   The Navy is fighting to avoid any more cuts in the Pacific.

6.   The rating firms are fighting to avoid any new regulation or legislation that would increase scrutiny of their research or open them to new competition.

7.   There were more delays as civil servants and politicians, accustomed to the comforts of Bonn, fought to avoid the rigors of Berlin.

8.   They fight to avoid scoreboard-watching when the Cowboys play.

9.   Pinochet is fighting to avoid Spanish attempts to prosecute him on alleged rights violations stemming from his rule.

10.   A general and two colonels are fighting to avoid trial on charges of masterminding the Mack slaying.