The aged care plan, similar to one the President sponsored last year as a senator, a fight on Capitol hill.

Some anti-organization Democrats saw in the program an opportunity to end the bitter internal fight within the Democratic party that has been going on for the last three years.

The fight over the Warwick School Committee's appointment of a coordinator of audio-visual education may go to the state Supreme Court, it appeared last night.

Political, economic and military experts were all agreed that chaotic, mountainous little Laos was the last place in the world to fight a war -- and they were probably right.

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

* 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.

As the last man standing, the player character's mission is to fight through the entire onslaught of demonic enemies by himself in order to keep them from attacking Earth.

The last known gladiatorial fight took place during the reign of Honorius.

* 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

" This fight was scheduled to last three rounds, but Mr. T finished it in less than 54 seconds.

In the Conquest of Melilla, the duke sent Pedro Estopiñán, who conquered the city virtually without a fight in 1497, a few years after ( 1492 ) Castile had taken control of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last remnant of Al-Andalus.

It is also the best known symbol of the adage that " generals always fight the last war, especially if they have won it ".

* May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered by Hitler to “ fight to the last man .”

* January 8 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.

* August 21 – Huguenot rebellions: Montauban, one of the last Huguenot strongholds, surrenders without a fight to Richelieu's troops.

Patton reported that one of the civilian guides, an ex-Villista named E. L. Holmdahl, now working for the Americans, fired the last shot that killed the already-multiply-wounded Cárdenas, who at the end of the fight had started to surrender, then continued firing.

Once blocked from retreat, the French in the fortress of Metz had no choice but to engage in a fight that would see the last major cavalry engagement in Western Europe.

In late 1999, Shehhi, Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Said Bahaji, and Ramzi bin al-Shibh decided to travel to Chechnya to fight against the Russians, but were convinced by Khalid al-Masri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi at the last minute to change their plans.

Raeder's order that intended to avoid a repeat of the scuttling of the Admiral Graf von Spee read: " The German warship and her crew are to fight with their strength to the last shell, until they win or they go down with their flag flying.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops under command of Charles Pichegru took the city with hardly a fight: in the Batavian Republic, both Catholics and Brabanders at last gained equal rights.

Pirates tended to kill few people aboard the ships they captured ; usually they would kill no one if the ship surrendered because, if it became known that pirates took no prisoners, their victims would fight to the last and make victory both very difficult and costly in lives.

For two days Leonidas and his troops withstand the Persian attacks ; he then orders most of his troops to retreat, and he and his 300-member royal guard fight to the last man.

If he is hired to fight the Turks, he will bluster about fighting them to his last drop of blood, but when the Turks seem to be winning, he will join them.

" While working in his owner's fields on May 12, Turner " heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

In the last war Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.

Noting that Plainfield last year had lost the Mack Truck Co. plant, he said industry will not come into this state until there is tax reform.

In the last oracle is mentioned that the " water which could speak ", has been lost for ever.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

During the last twenty years of his life Alexios lost much of his popularity.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

and possibly gregarines are exceptions as they are thought to have lost their plastids after the diverging last common ancestor of apicomplexans.

Ajax's last international trophies were the 1995 Intercontinental Cup and the 1995 Champions League, where they defeated Milan in the final ; they lost the 1996 Champions League final on penalties to Juventus.

Caesar knew this would be his last stand as they had run out of supplies and with no lines of retreat they would be at Pompey's mercy and likely slaughtered if they lost the battle.

The Telegony ( Τηλεγόνεια ), an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these.

( As a result of the setting of the age limit at the start of 1971, twenty-five living cardinals, including the last three surviving cardinals elevated by Pope Pius XI, lost the right to participate in a conclave.

The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

Wilson held that with the rise of the modern sciences, the sense of unity gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries.

In Central America, two-thirds of lowland tropical forests have been turned into pasture since 1950 and 40 % of all the rainforests have been lost in the last 40 years.

They were plagued by injuries throughout the season and lost the second most man-games to injury, with only the last place Edmonton Oilers losing more.

The last Salvadoran troops left Iraq on January 2009 with 5 soldiers lost in their 5 and a half year involvement.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

" Baresi missed the first penalty kick in the shootout, and with teammate Roberto Baggio missing the last penalty, Italy lost the first World Cup Final to be decided on penalties.

England reached the last four of the 1968 European Championships where they lost to Yugoslavia in Florence.