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• s  requiring great effort
  a hard-fought primary

• PTI Person of the Year 2004: Half a billion Asians cast their votes in elections in 2004, and proved that democracyhard-fought, raucous and ever more vibranthas become an .
• As a result of the hard-fought deliberations and recommendations of the Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling, in August of 2006 the Democratic National .
• The long hard-fought Presidential campaigns were marked by vast stretches of downtime, like this moment of respite enjoyed by Cindy McCain in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas.

News & Articles

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• Water polo: A hard-fought loss
  Pasadena High School’s girls water polo team held on for a hard-fought 4-3 overtime win over Nipomo High in a defensive battle Tuesday during a CIF Southern Section Division 5 wild card game.
  June 12, 2013 - The Adobe Press
• Torrey Pines High School Lady Falcon Softball Team takes Division 1 Softball Championship
  The hard-fought battle took place at UCSD with the Palomar League Co-champion Falcons scoring in the first inning and holding onto that lead for 7 complete innings.
  June 11, 2013 - Del Mar Times
• Yukon prepares to ‘Re-light the Mill’
  YUKON, Okla.– After months of fundraisers and hard-fought battles, a local group will celebrate a staple of the Yukon community...
  June 11, 2013 - Oklahoma's NewsChannel 4

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in CNN International
  I want to thank the Democrats and Republicans in Congress who came together around a hard-fought compromise that will save or create more than 3.5 million jobs and get our economy back on track,Obama said in a statement.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in ABC News
  It would have been the same way if I had won and Barack was here supporting the unity of the party,Clinton said. "This was a hard-fought campaign and there was a lot of intensity and passion associated with it in part because of the...
• President Bush in Voice of America
  Any further drawdown will be based on conditions on the ground and the recommendations of our commanders and they must not jeopardize the hard-fought gains our troops and civilians have made over the past year,Mr. Bush said.