1.   But none of that happened without running gun battles with the centralizers in Washington.

2.   In the resulting confrontation several hundred Mohawks armed with clubs and guns fought running battles with police.

3.   Along seams in the West Bank where Palestinian neighborhoods run up against Jewish settlements, settlers were also clashing with Palestinian rioters in running gun battles.

4.   A riot policeman was killed in the capital when hooded students threw a home-made explosive during running battles outside the National University.

5.   All these sports areas offer places where you can leave notes offering your opinions or join in running battles about the merits and demerits of players and teams.

6.   It was the Stork Club, the fantasy creation of an Oklahoma bootlegger, Sherman Billingsley, who fought running battles with racketeer partners.

7.   Later Thursday, the police fought running street battles with hundreds of pro-reform students, dispersing some of them with tear gas.

8.   The clearest example of the tension took place when riot police recently engaged in running battles with stone-throwing protesters at the University of California at Northridge.

9.   The startup schedule slipped about three years as state politicians and the Bush administration fought running battles over how safe to make the sanctuary.