Experience tells one that judges of ECJ tend to win those tugs-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [Red lines wavering] Reference
He knew the daily and nightly tugs-of-war between Wilson and the other representatives of the Allied nations. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Peace] Reference
But in this year's wide-open presidential race, some interesting tugs-of-war are going on within individual companies. From Wordnik.com. [Executives Display Diverse Electoral Loyalties] Reference
Unlike physics, biology grew out of a tugs-of-war between a tradition of vitalism and, since Decartes, one of mechanicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
Courts, social workers, and extended family members are often faced with parental tugs-of-war which, more than anything, raised the question: where does a parent's ego end, and a child's life begin?. From Wordnik.com. [Susie Bright: How Safe is Your Daughter?] Reference
Fourteen: After fly shop guy has run you through a litany of his on-river heroics — ripping lips, pounding banks, stripping buggers, raking shelves, dredging pools, shuffling tail-outs, busting casts, crushing rapids, mining hawgs, back-breaking tugs-of-war — you are certain he is describing a war or industrial effort. From Wordnik.com. [Fish Lit Classic ...] Reference
Aside from what he describes as political jockeying and "tugs-of-war" following the December, 2005 parliamentary election (which was more of a mirage than an election with the US running everything behind the scenes besides cleaning the streets after the daily dozens of car-bombings and killings), Achcar feels things hadn't yet reached the scale of a full-blown civil war. From Wordnik.com. [Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar's New Book - Perilous Power] Reference
Significantly, 27 percent of Packard Bell's customers are buying the new machines as second home computers, resolving those family tugs-of-war (Compaq reports that the bulk of its budget-PC customers are buying a second computer); another two thirds are first-time computer buyers, suggesting that budget PCs aren't stealing sales from higher-performance machines-the PC makers 'greatest fear. From Wordnik.com. [Easing The Byte] Reference
The tugs-of-war were showing their practical value. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in Southern Waters] Reference
We ran races and had tugs-of-war with a rope made of stockings tied together. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bountiful] Reference
Plainly put, the budget-centered political tugs-of-war are detrimental to the national economy. From Wordnik.com. [JPost.com - Front Page] Reference
And funding cuts and political tugs-of-war will mean a tougher time for society's most vulnerable students. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News] Reference
The Bricklayers 'is always lively -- tugs-of-war, fat-man races, real Irish jiggin', an '... an' everything. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
In tugs-of-war and "uprooting the gorse" he had no equals, but a sense of his educational deficiencies kept him at his books. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812] Reference
Flanigan, who uses one of the pods for his own office, says they not only provide big cost savings, but are comfortable to work in - and put an end to employee tugs-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
Nevertheless, the game's historical breadth, turn-based tugs-of-war, and enjoyable real-time battles (both on land and at sea) will transfix series fans and newcomers alike. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
Even in the French and American revolutions there were tugs-of-war between radicals, unyielding in their determination to implement their ideals, and moderates, willing to temper dogma with pragmatism. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference
But Nightline has nevertheless been at the center of occasional and well-publicized internal tugs-of-war at ABC, with executives in Burbank making no secret of an apparent intermittent desire to wrest the 11: 35 p.m. time period from the news division. From Wordnik.com. [mediabistro.com: TVNewser] Reference
But the effort was slowed when conservationists, commercial fishing interests, recreational anglers, business leaders and divers became locked in tugs-of-war over areas that fishermen say are prime trawling spots and that conservationists say are habitats critical to replenishing the surrounding seas. From Wordnik.com. Reference
For much of the city’s educational history, the teachers had been the heroes, stalwarts who soldiered on, underpaid, amid racial tugs-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Writing, Resurrection] Reference
I witnessed amusing tugs-of-war between Obamaphiles as they slyly compared who had attended which fundraiser ( "Was Barack at yours or was it just Michelle?") canvassed in which state ( "We drove to Indiana last week ...". From Wordnik.com. [Victoria Lautman: Your Very Best Friend, Barack] Reference
North Korea was convinced it could win in successive tugs-of-war with the US. ". From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
But in general, the tugs-of-war of the past are well-limned; take the K-section, for example, on either side of Don Patinkin’s article on John Maynard Keynes: there is Luigi Pasinetti on Roger Kahn and Adrian Wood on Nicholas Kaldor both well-to-the-left of center—but a few pages later, there is George Stigler on the Chicagoan Frank Knight followed by David Belsley on the late Edwin Kuh, the computer pioneer who served as consultant to George McGovern’s presidential campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
The convention was designed to mediate cross-border tugs-of-war. From Wordnik.com. [The Snatchback] Reference
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