Yet even as they do so, the companies and their allies in Congress, in state capitals and from their Alaskan oil operations are waging an intensive lobbying effort to try to force a settlement.

But with four of the five commission slots opening, his allies waged an ultimately successful campaign to get him nominated as chairman as part of a political compromise.

Neither Papen nor his conservative allies waged a fight against the Reichstag Fire Decree in late February or the Enabling Act in March.

Rather than engage in a debate, La Raza and its allies have waged a campaign to have the other side shunned by the press, civil society, and elected officials.

The United States and its allies have waged a dirty and cowardly war against a courageous and faithful people.

Stile and his allies were waging little more than a holding action at this point, staving off the reckoning.

The Government-run newspaper Al Jumhouriya said in an editorial that the United States and its allies had waged a long campaign to weaken Iraq through "wars, economic sanctions and partition plans."

The King, the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall wage war together upon the Athenians.

Washington's supporters and allies waged an unprecedented and successful battle over redistricting.

Mr. Bush and his Republican allies have waged a war based on a misrepresented threat, cut veterans' benefits, passed the buck over the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and so on.