But they held long enough for us all to pop through into an ongoing battle.
"It's an ongoing battle to stop people from destroying houses," he said.
It was an ongoing battle to keep them out of the businesses.
The tape was a key piece of evidence in the ongoing legal battle.
The ongoing battle of wills had not been kind to Elliot, either.
The ongoing battle to sound smarter than you really are just got a little easier and a lot more expensive.
A year later Morris lost his ongoing battle with cancer.
But because of the ongoing legal battle between the band and its management, it was delayed several times.
President Bush's assault on reproductive rights is part of a larger ongoing cultural battle.
His ongoing battle against alcoholism continued during the 1970s and 1980s.