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Entertaining guests is like a tug of war-having a family, keeping a house, and doing gham-khadi all at the same time.
At least when we have a national assembly, there will be no tug of war within that body.
I watched his prowess in the tug of war with great respect and considerable fear.
What difference is there in principle between kicking a hare and deliberately setting dogs on it to use it as a tug of war?
We believe that a permanent tug of war goes on.
I realise that finance will be needed, but at least we shall not have this tug of war, which has taken much time and energy.
It enables us all to survive the constant tug of war of life's problems.
The hare was caught by both dogs, one at the foreleg and one at the back leg, and there was a tug of war.
The process is not a philosophical game or a tug of war, to determine who is best on the day.
The hare is a live rope in a tug of war.
In its most horrific form coursing leads to the hare being torn, screaming, limb from limb as a living rope in a tug of war between two dogs.
If the present prices of foodstuffs represent the tug of war in a competitive market, any easing of the burden in one market must result in a raising of prices.
This is reflected in a tug of war over funds, as we have seen, between the colonising operation of direct action and the coordination work of indirect and concerted action.
Now there seems to be a public tug of war about economic and monetary union, and whether policy on it will or will not be softened.
They play tug of war with it.
