1.   Vicious fights and arguments were a daily occurrence in the shipyards.

2.   Although rumors of a settlement had emerged recently, some observers believe the animosity was deep enough to make a vicious public fight inevitable.

3.   Anyone who was around the team during the Bill Parcells era recalls a vicious fight between McGinest and Ferric Collons, and other lesser skirmishes among players.

4.   At the time of the killing, the Arellanos were engaged in a vicious fight to control cocaine-smuggling routes into the United States.

5.   The manpower advantage was the result of a vicious fight between Lyle Odelein of the Canadiens and Darren Langdon of the Rangers near the end of the first period.

6.   The online brokerage companies, and their offline rivals, are in a vicious fight for market share that happens to have heated up this fall.

7.   Then, out of the clear blue, a vicious fight would erupt and the blood would flow.

8.   Washington goes to war on the deficit, and a vicious political fight is erupting over who gets what as the GOP tries to sell its radical Medicare cuts.