tug-of-war

How To Use tug-of-war In A Sentence

• Next, he says that if one wants to add value, one stays out of tug-of-war and instead looks for issues or positions that are outside of the standard clumps. Ideological Games of Tug-of-War, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• It was a bitter, acrimonious divorce that involved lawyers and an emotional tug-of-war over access to Leon.
• The duo, classmates from Harvard Business School, joined forces in 2007 to launch Gilt Groupe Inc. and bring designer sample sales— famous in New York for inducing tug-of-war frenzies—to an online audience. More How I Built It
• Within the frame of the tug-of-war, I believe that's a reasonable libertarian choice, even if it means being wholly against the party that somehow contains the few identified libertarians outside of LP and independents. In Which Ezra Shows Why He is not Close to Conversion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• But when an adult supervisor and other counselors organized a tug-of-war, Allan's instincts told him to refuse to join in.
• When there is an emotional tug-of-war within the individual, there is a pull of one organ against the other. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
• Scottish resources have always been thin and an unbecoming tug-of-war has broken out over several of the best under-21 players after the side's second win of the season against Italy.
• The federal government and states have been in a tug-of-war over alcohol regulation since the 21st Amendment passed in 1933. Congress's Sour Grapes
• The tug-of-war comes at a time when the ethics committee is facing an exceptional workload.
• The dramatis personae are friends, relations, and neighbors, evidently engaging in a friendly tug-of-war between two teams of women and children apparently of roughly equal strength — the kind of happy social exercise in which by all accounts my grandfather specialized. Archive 2009-02-01