But for decades afterward, Miss Davis publicly battled with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, insisting that she had bestowed her first husband's middle name on the Oscar.

Sadly, she suffered from a drug addiction that she publicly battled for several years.

At the time, Mr. Sliwa and his volunteer crime-busting Guardian Angels were battling publicly with the New York police.

She publicly battled bankruptcy, drug addiction and wild fluctuations in her weight.

The Finance Ministry has been publicly battling with the main credit-rating agencies - Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch - since late April, when Moody's said it was considering a two-notch downgrade.

Even when he was trying to procure more power for the Council in the late 1980's, he almost never battled publicly with Mayors Edward I. Koch or David N. Dinkins, both Democrats.

Chief Brown received criticism from police officers for not battling publicly with the Mayor over officer salaries.

In 2012, sites like Buzzfeed proved that the internet love for corgis was apparent, especially when they publicly battled The Atlantic for questioning the online popularity of the breed.

Politically, Lobato was strongly in favor of a state monopoly for iron and oil exploration in Brazil and battled publicly for it between 1931 and 1939.

Unwilling to publicly battle his party's nationalist wing, Torrijos privately asked González Pinzón to resign, but avoided criticizing him in the press.