But Mr. Yanukovich was stepping into a much more lonely fight.

I'm not going to become a conservative because of this, but I have more regard for the lonely fight these guys fight.

For three weeks, he had waged a lonely, passionate fight for a nomination universally considered doomed.

It became an aloof, lonely personal fight to make the grade.

It has been a lonely fight.

"Early on, a lonely fight," he said, recalling the days when he began his advocacy of abortion rights.

He stood up to pro-slavery forces and led lonely fights against parliamentary maneuvers to silence critics of slavery.

It is a lonely fight.

"It is no longer a lonely fight just in our own country," she said.

Chairman Lantos stood tall in the sometimes lonely fight for the people of China and Tibet.