In contrast, the insurgents appear to be disciplined and determined to fight to the bitter end.

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This, after he had vowed to fight to the bitter end.

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If the choice is between dying in combat and rotting away in a US prison cell, many guerrillas might choose to fight to the bitter end.

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Another contributor was the expansion of international peacekeeping forces, which really do keep the peace not always, but far more often than when adversaries are left to fight to the bitter end.

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Questions are being asked by some diplomats over whether the war crimes indictments against the Libyan leader and his inner circle have left him with no choice but to fight until the bitter end.

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And it's been a very bitter fight, so it strikes me as being pretty hard to put that together at the end of the day.

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