His tremendous effort was exhausting in a physical sense, as his body rebelled against his bid for mental control.

He said people would lose any fear they had of voting against General Pinochet's bid to extend his rule.

On December 22, 2009 the 9th Circuit decided against the artist's bid for his double jeopardy motion.

He said that he would spend the next month making the case against Computer Associates' bid to his shareholders.

For the last year, groups of anarchists and other militants have been fighting a guerrilla war against Berlin's bid.

And he insisted that the Vivendi talks had "nothing to do" with defending against Vodafone's hostile bid.

The move was widely seen as a defense against Weyerhaeuser's hostile bid.

The exchange appeared to have weighed against his bid for bail, which his lawyers had initially seemed confident of securing.

Once the board voted against the unions' bid, Mr. Wolf was unbound.

The Google campaign against Microsoft's bid, to some degree, underlines their broadening competition.