Примери за sparring

• But they are creating a camaraderie here with their verbal sparring, as they do it constantly interspersed with laughter.

• Twentiethcentury historians have documented the variegated ways in which it was played out and opposed, with conservative and leftist analysts sparring over both its causes and effects.

• I personally was very pleased that we heard from my previous sparring partner.

• Let the pessimists and the optimists have their usual sparring match.

• We shall continue no doubt to enjoy sparring with him in his new role.

• I have had the honour of sparring with him on this question several times in the past two years.

• He is an old sparring partner from another place.

• I am only too happy to give way to my old sparring partner.

• He has been a friend and sparring partner for nearly a lifetime.

• She was both a partner and a sparring partner of mine over many years.

• The subject of immigration is too sensitive, sometimes too tragic, to continue to make it the subject of political sparring matches.

• There are five by-elections pending at the moment; most of the candidates have been chosen, and the initial sparring has begun.

• Sadly, party politics and political sparring have formed far too large a part of it.

• We have merely had a political sparring match.

• It is rather like sparring with at giant octopus.