1.  Change is likely to come only incrementally, and only where advocates, in most cases non-governmental organizations, fight existing practices, laws and customs.

2.  For years, environmental advocates and opponents of government subsidies for businesses have fought the practice as economically wasteful and ecologically foolhardy.

3.  In many ways, Dawit has found, fighting the practice in the United States is as complicated as it is in Africa.

4.  Savage said the solution to the problem lay in electing lawmakers who would fight the practice.

5.  The money would go to countries fighting the practice for field education about its dangers and training village leadership.

6.  But some of the abandoned women are banding together to fight the practice.