| I could feel my face crumpling, and I tried to fight back the flood of emotion. |
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| Tony Parkes had to fight back tears as he described his testimonial as one of the greatest nights of his life. |
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| How to fight back against a bad bust or police harassment was something that he and fellow musicians had been discussing for years. |
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| The grand final rematch was a defensive scrap with Thornlie showing great resilience to fight back to win by a goal. |
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| In Drexler's hothouse world of boxers, gangsters and abused molls, women have to fight back. |
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| He pulls me through the crowd, much as I try to fight back, hissing insults and cussing at him like a sailor. |
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| As much as our scientists would love to study these things, people are in danger and we need to fight back. |
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| The most important way in which the present system makes people cooperate with each other is when it drives them to fight back against it. |
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| They're so outmanned, outmanoeuvred and outgunned that it's hard to think of what else they could do to fight back. |
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| They're biting her, cutting her, whipping her, beating her, and she cries and screams but doesn't fight back. |
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| She laughs uncontrollably, trying to hit me and fight back, but her blows glance off. |
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| But a second half full of passion, belief, guts and mental toughness saw the Knights fight back to win in another mesmerising finale. |
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| As a former self-defense instructor, I can safely affirm that the best way to avoid injury by an attacker is to fight back. |
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| The modern Aristotelian, less inclined to discount inferiors and outsiders than Aristotle himself, can fight back. |
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| Studies have shown that women who resist and fight back are less likely to be harmed than those women who submit passively. |
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| Still she continued on relentless as I did everything I could to fight back and not beg for mercy. |
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| I'd say to people who are immediately under attack from this, get yourselves organised, find allies and fight back. |
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| Chairman of the Labour Group, Coun Norma Lincoln, said Labour would fight back. |
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| Isn't it now time we redressed the balance by arming his victims so they can fight back? |
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| The fight back against ignorance and prejudice in Ethiopia starts in a small warren of offices in a back street of the capital. |
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| I intend to fight back and regain my place on the panel and the only way to do that is by keeping my chin up and continuing with my training. |
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| It is one of the various small ways in which the public can fight back against the people who are undermining their quality of life. |
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| It is the key to the fight back against pollution, global warming, and dwindling resources. |
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| He didn't even fight back and he easily overpowered her in the strength department. |
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| Crouching down, Lee sends two quick jabs and one uppercut to Kyoske as he tries to fight back. |
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| Looking at those puffy eyes and enlarged nostrils I decided not to fight back. |
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| A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back. |
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| They are resolute that they will physically fight back whenever the law and order officers arrive. |
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| Robin Hood and his band of outlaws fight back against the tyranny of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. |
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| Secure in the knowledge he cannot fight back, the press is free to pursue him, committing to print whatever calumnies it likes. |
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| Her eyes narrowed into her infamous glare, and the woman was riled enough to fight back. |
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| There aren't many men that could fight back from tuberculosis and play cricket for England. |
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| In movies we get to vicariously fight back against the things or people that do the dirty on us. |
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| To Dungarvan's eternal credit they mounted a magnificent fight back when teams of lesser resolve would have folded. |
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| They'd rather scavenge dead animals than try to bring down something that might fight back. |
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| Like the French Resistance, they're not taking it lying down, as they fight back with every scheming trick at their disposal. |
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| He was a victim of genetic pollution and courageously decided to fight back and speak out against bio-serfdom. |
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| Too often, it's an abuse of power against those too weak or unknowledgeable to fight back. |
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| Therefore the trade union and labour movement now needs to get organised to fight back. |
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| We're sheepish about it because we're too dumb to know how to fight back against the microscopic murderers. |
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| At first she did fight back, but I eventually succeeded in breaking her down into my submissive wife, a bird trapped in a gilded cage. |
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| The indifferent look on my face is only there because people like you are being unkind to me and I can't fight back. |
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| We sat through enough meetings to know they were getting a raw deal and they hadn't the money or the clout to fight back. |
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| Firefighters, police, council workers and Thames Water joined forces to fight back the flood and limit the damage. |
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| It seems to me that the word has gone out amongst the porky community, because they're beginning to fight back. |
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| Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back. |
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| However it happens, once you know the score you need to start work immediately to fight back. |
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| It was a performance packed with spirit, determination and confidence as they had to fight back from an early 10-0 deficit. |
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| This shows once again that you can try to beat down business with socialism, but it will fight back to the bitter end. |
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| We do not have to settle for every misery fate and humanity have heaped upon us, but should fight back, to see which ones can be shaken off. |
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| It was tough on the Carlow girls who had put up a sterling second half fight back having trailed by six points at half time. |
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| We need to fight back by ensuring that hospital wards, theatres and departments are kept spotlessly clean. |
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| The time has come for countries to act collectively to fight back against these abusive practices. |
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| I could feel her trying to fight back the tears and sadness she had felt all these years, hidden behind a plastic smile put on so she wouldn't upset Dad. |
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| He then went on to suffer bowel problems caused by the prematurity which needed surgery but amazed doctors with his fight back to health despite being in and out of hospital. |
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| Williams, his adviser, has been heartened by Carson's willingness to fight back. |
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| In the meantime, what I find absolutely fabulous is this willingness to fight back with determination, and to win through daring. |
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| The snoopers know all about your private life and the loudmouths fight back. |
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| There needs to be enough wax on the paper to fight back the paint. |
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| A son may feel ashamed that his father didn't fight back when he was beaten during a robbery. |
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| It could provoke retaliation, although the EU loftily says it would fight back at the WTO instead. |
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| It is the aggressive attempt to export liberal permissiveness that causes fundamentalism to fight back vehemently and assert itself. |
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| Any network can find and polish a one-off hottie to fight back tears at the disaster site du jour. |
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| I think we fight back, at least in part, by saying that we will not cower before these cowardly acts. |
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| The talk should have been of his tremendous fight back, a late rally that saw last year's beaten finalist's escape to victory over a brave East Kerry side. |
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| Before we understand how to fight back against crystal meth, it is important that we understand what it is. |
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| Governments came together to begin the fight back against the global recession. |
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| If we act together, then we can fight back and come out of the crisis stronger. |
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| How do we handle the new sensitive situation in which people are starting to fight back? |
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| The only lesson that we have learned is that war and oppression only breeds a radical and violent impulse to fight back. |
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| The whalers fight back, with devices such as water cannon and acoustic devices. |
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| This time, he was no longer concerned with rendering her unable to fight back. |
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| It seems only fair that if the foxes can be hunted by a load of chinless, inbred yahoos with roughly the same IQ as them, they should be allowed to fight back. |
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| In some cases, such as those of Dallas nurses Nina Pham and amber Vinson, the body figures out how to fight back. |
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| But during the aughts, the stunning actress had to fight back against being typecast. |
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| I heard that your fight back caused them to get more violent and brutalize you further. |
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| But Marchildon, who has now given up modeling to become a cabinetmaker, recently decided to fight back in court. |
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| There had to be a way to resist, to fight back and turn away. |
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| To be fair, he told me that he would kill me while he throttled my neck, and once I broke free I tried desperately to fight back. |
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| With the country sinking ever further into a prescription drug-induced haze, one state has decided to fight back. |
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| Not wanting to shatter his family, Charles pays up at first, but when more and more money is demanded he decides to fight back, but with disastrous consequences. |
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| People are sick of the say little, no fight back, triangulating party. |
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| The defenders had been bombed and napalmed by airplanes, shellacked by artillery and doused with poison gas, and they had no ammunition of their own left to fight back. |
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| I was too busy trying to suck in breathable air to fight back. |
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| I do hope the wealthy, and their aspirational followers, press a giant class action lawsuit to fight back against these luxury industry ripoff artists. |
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| The Chinese Emperor also ordered the Malaccans to raise soldiers and fight back with violent force if the Vietnamese attacked them again. |
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| The Arawaks attempted to fight back against Columbus's men but lacked their armor, guns, swords, and horses. |
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| Violent encounters with brown bears usually last only a few minutes, though they can be prolonged if the victims fight back. |
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| The charity is now calling on the people to fight back against the disease by supporting their lifesaving research. |
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| The ivory piano keys seemed to fight back as be struggled to plink out a tune. |
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| So much so that people all over the world from the West Indies to Brussels and Strasbourg, some individuals have decided to fight back rather than capitulate. |
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| Moreover, as they lose their courage to fight back against your violence, they will accumulate feelings of self-hatred as well. |
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| Spain tried to use its armies to fight back but had no help from European powers. |
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| It tried to fight back with submarines, despite the risk of war by the powerful neutral power the United States. |
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| But while local groups fight back, the NRA is staying on the sidelines. |
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| Yet when Drogheda were at their groggiest, Jason Gavin, Graham Gartland and keeper, Dan Connor, were the men who lead the fight back. |
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| Use tools to fight back and protect your computer and your information. |
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| A simple but very effective strategy to fight back is to identify new arrivals of the invasive spartina in valuable sites early by surveying vulnerable areas and eliminating them before they spread. |
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| We listened when you promised us that acting with restraint during the period of calm would give us the credibility to fight back should the rocket attacks resume. |
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| The criticism at the time was that if the international community was not going to resolve the situation by other means it should not work to deny groups the ability to fight back. |
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| While the picture may seem bleak, there are many ways to fight back. |
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| My contradictory spirit and my need to fight back helped me a great deal. |
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| We need to continue to unite with the Telefonistas, the independent Mexican telephone workers union known as STRM, and fight back on a global basis wherever these companies operate. |
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| Sheamus finally managed to fight back lock the cloverleaf in before hitting the Brogue Kick to retain his championship in front of an ecstatic crowd. |
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| Pyongyang was again recovered and Seoul re-occupied once more, attempting to fight back the incessant onslaught of the US Air Force, the most powerful which has ever existed. |
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| In that case, crew from both ships fight back and forth until one of them is destroyed or the winner of a round of assault decides not to push his attack. |
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| This workshop looked at how women can resist and fight back as neo-liberal policies drain social programs and dump more and more responsibilities onto women as the primary caregivers in society. |
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| The Steelworkers and the entire labour movement have mobilized to fight back against U. S. Steel and to force our governments to defend our working families and pensioners. |
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| This measure, however, will help allow small businesses to fight back. |
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| This protest – in both its peaceful and more violent dimensions – is a sign of a country unafraid to fight back, for the first time in a long time. |
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| It is a long fight back from the despondency of the ultimate darkness, but many, if not most, of those who are stricken do make the grade, and some do so with a sense of exhilaration. |
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| However, postmen in Wales could soon be able to fight back with a special spray which has the effect of disorientating dogs intent on attack. |
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| They rolled him for his money, and that would have been that, but the guy tried to fight back. |
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| Scampaign, a month-long Coventry Trading Standards appeal, will ask people to fight back against fraudsters by reporting any scam mail that drops through their letterbox. |
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| That's because they've already fallen under the supermonster's spell. They don't know how to fight back. They don't even remember that they can fight back. |
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| It was left to the next son, a furious John of Gaunt, to fight back. |
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| The new owners had an antagonistic attitude towards unions, which, accustomed to comfortable relationships with the state, were not prepared to fight back. |
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