He pledged not to do battle with the United States, the church, and that he would no longer seize land.
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But it has become clear that the administration is not prepared to do battle with supporters of the embargo in Congress.
Flush with cash from its dialysis patients, Amgen decided to do battle with its own licensee, reclaiming the market it had given away in 1985.
Whitmarsh is confident the MP4-19 will be ready to do battle with rivals Ferrari and Williams when the season gets under way in Australia on March 7.
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That calm, though, could be interrupted as neighboring Turkey considers invading Kurdistan to do battle with local rebels - rebels who've allegedly killed 15 Turkish soldiers since Sunday.
It is for Mr Tsang's successor, and new leaders who will take over in China too in 2012, to do battle with the democrats over the next steps.
But the moment a half-way assertive chief minister takes office in one of the regions, he will want to appoint his own top civil servants to do battle with Whitehall.
Do conservatives really want to send a candidate to do battle with the Obama political machine advocating cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits, especially when more fundamental reforms would reduce spending far more?
Many had been preparing to do battle with foreign forces when they arrived later in the year but France's surprise military deployment this month has only intensified jihadist appeals for others to join them.
The story concerns the title warrior, who arrives in Denmark in the year 507 to do battle with Grendel, a giant, pustulant, suppurating demon that terrifies the Danish court whenever they're in their mead cups, which is often.
In fact, the boutique's home, the former location of the Terra Museum of American Art, is scheduled to be replaced by a residential building next year, leaving Moto precious little time to do battle with the more-permanent Nokia facility across the street.
Their mission was not to defeat the Black Prince, who went on to take their king prisoner at Poitiers, but instead to do battle with their compatriots in Toulouse and Carcassonne who had appropriated the recipe and, they believed, were ruinously altering it.
Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia itself, a modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do battle with: trapped in an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer fringes, ruled by dynasties and incapable of adjusting to a changed world.
Now Nightmare in North Point is headed to the game, bringing Chinese folklore and, of course, zombies to do do furious battle with our hero, Wei Shen.
And the bottom line: Microsoft's old monopolistic business has nothing to do with the current battle.
But it also has something to do with a ministerial battle over who would control the funds.
Now, what has all of this got to do with the looming battle over gun control in general, and high capacity bullet clips in particular?
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Microsoft, if it gets its operating system right, could also capture a portion of the business tablet market and to do battle, once again, with RIM.
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Instead, the court battle has to do with taxpayer dollars.
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What this lookalike of a Star Wars battle station has to do with Tokyo's past is a mystery.
On the other hand, Lee will undoubtedly find Kim's support invaluable in his coming electoral battle and may do a deal with the president.
Berbatov cleverly played in Valencia, whose cross left Rooney with work to do, but not only did he win the aerial battle with the taller Collins, he sent a towering header high beyond Friedel into the top corner.
Fisichella, who ran the Finn close in Spa with his racing instinct and raw speed, will be expected to do battle at the sharp end of the field at Monza, where the Ferraris, with the advantage of the power-boost Kers system, are expected to be competitive.
What are you going to do when you get on board with a battle ax?
Why do the warriors fight with swords while winged battle cruisers rain down death from above?
And the reason we won that battle - and that was a very tough battle - I believe had a lot to do with new media.
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If it was just the island's freedom at stake, the U.S. public might not want to send their fighting men and women to do battle for a faraway land which many Americans often confuse with Thailand.
Engaging in another government-driven spending battle, this time with the Chinese, will do nothing more than show that America has missed the point.
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With the strong support of his board and an another supposedly positive earnings call coming later today, it's hard to call Steve's position as "shaky" at the company, but with whispers of infighting, a symbolic battle with Apple over market capitalization, and a do-or-die mobile launch coming up, it's clear that he's under a lot of pressure to deliver.
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The question on everyone's lips is why he has launched this high-stakes battle with the judiciary and whether he has been encouraged to do so by Mr Asif Zardari or the army's top brass.
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