How To Use Bare-knuckle In A Sentence
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In the bare-knuckle street-fights of Australian politics - such as the constitutional crisis in 1975 and last year's Federal election campaign - we have played by the rules.
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It has more of an international flavor than The Singapore Story, noted for its bare-knuckle account of Separation from Malaysia, and may be more mellow.
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Sports fans eat this kind of bare-knuckled action with a tablespoon.
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He can handle himself in a bare-knuckle fight.
The Sun
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It is believed these tensions arose in the wake of a bare-knuckle fight contest the previous weekend.
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However, repeatedly characterizing McCain's false claims as him likely being "confused" is defensible, and within the bounds of bare-knuckled political brawling.
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In 1889 John L Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in Mississippi after 75 rounds - the last bare-knuckle heavyweight title contest.
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Ritchie obligingly came up with the idea of casting the US superstar as an Irish bare-knuckle gypsy boxer.
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On Anoushka's return to London, where she works full-time as a lawyer, she will have a brief period of rest before continuing her training with bare-knuckle fighters and tyre-hauling around London's parks.
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Mat Gleason is known for being a bare-knuckle art critic.
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Bremner's gloves now came off and his bare-knuckle attack on Blair, playing poodle to the Campbell's Rottweiler, grew blatantly more brutal.
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The art dealer Victor Waddington had an eye with a slightly lowered lid, apparently the result of a bare-knuckle boxing match fought for the prize money to embark upon his chosen career.
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Favreau plays Bobby, a construction worker by day who boxes by night - sometimes gloved in the ring, sometimes bare-knuckled as bouncer for his stripper girlfriend, Jessica.
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This year's battle for the Oscar nominations is shaping up to be a bare-knuckle showdown between veterans Eastwood and Scorsese.
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Mr. Arkin said he was impressed at the time by Mr. Pope's "artfulness"; he said he wasn't concerned Mr. Pope would be tainted by the bare-knuckled tactics Mr. Spitzer and his staff used in their battles on Wall Street and in Albany.
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But choke holds, kicks, and near bare-knuckle punches are not only legal, but the way to win.
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Plus, she's a bare-knuckled, gritty mud-slinger that would give Dick Cheney a worthwhile opponent when the debates roll around.
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‘It looks like it's going to be a bare-knuckle encounter,’ said Joe Burnell, a media analyst with Davy, Ireland's biggest stockbroker.
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Gramm also learned the rules of engagement in bare-knuckled Texas politics.
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Do you really think Rahm Emanuel is sitting back saying, 'Yeah, you know we got this,'" said Steele, a reference to the White House chief of staff who is known for his bare-knuckle approach to politics.
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All of this fine acting is secondary to the stark brutality of the episode, with realistic bare-knuckle boxing, barroom brawls, and swordfights.
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In campaign 2004, Bush again demonstrated the Bush family's bare-knuckled approach to politics.
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Anbinder has filled his book with great stories of bare-knuckle fighting, barrooms, corrupt politics, and mayhem.
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She rules the roost, sitting pretty after besting "Missy Thang" from the coal company in a secret bare-knuckle negotiation that includes a payday for Boyd Crowder as well, since he got Raylan's folks to sign their rights over to him, not to Black Pike.
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undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism
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A former participant in bare-knuckled White House skulduggery, John Dean, authored a chilling new article for the FindLaw publication.
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Sixteen heavyweights, some of whom have never stepped inside a ring before, will battle it out in what promoters have billed Fight Club night after the bare-knuckle film.
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And Fenty has publicly praised Ron Moten -- the Peaceoholics founder and bare-knuckle "brawler" who benefited from millions in city contracts under Fenty -- as a "great Washingtonian.
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How taxes are spent generally depends on the kind of bare-knuckled political struggle that makes Washington politics so ugly today.
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The A-Team infiltrates a corrupt prison where the warden forces his inmates to compete in bare-knuckle fight-to-the-death boxing matches.
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This is carparking with the gloves off, so to speak; bare-knuckle stuff.
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I miss the guys without helmets, Ron Duguay's hair flying in the wind, bare-knuckle punches landing on hardened heads.
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Although the bare-knuckle San Diego pugilist makes a virtue of being unpopular, it's actually a hell of a more pragmatic company than its shrill marketing would have you believe.
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The investigation uncovered evidence of coaches and security staff staging bare-knuckle fights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gloves revolutionized the bare-knuckled sport of boxing.
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The second big problem was that it was getting dark - just like it does every night, whether you're working on your first gig in the bare-knuckled world of tabloid TV journalism or not.
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The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry.
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The one deals with boxing promoter Turkish working in the seedy world of unsanctioned, illegal bare-knuckle boxing.
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What the media see as progressive self-delusion is actually the opposite: a bare-knuckled pragmatism born from the debacle of the 2000 elections.
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The hardscrabble, bare-knuckle fight for power is the primitive pulse that runs through his latest novel, The Eagle's Throne.
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A bare-knuckle, action-driven series, peppered with social commentary and dark humor, STRANGE GIRL is a story about the bewildering nature of religion, what would happen if the dark future predicted by many came true, and what a good person would endure for not having faith in advance of it.
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Personally, I would have liked to see Anthony Michael Hall pull the upset on Judd Nelson, matching up with Emilio Estevez in a bare-knuckle brawl to see who walks away with the prom queen.
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By doing all of this, the Grotian school is supposed to negotiate a middle way between bare-knuckled "Machiavellianism" and excessively idealistic
Hugo Grotius
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A bare-knuckle fighter, persecution, poverty, the Spanish Inquisition even.
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NC: You've been known to attend bare-knuckle fights.
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‘The film was called King of the Gypsies and it told the true story of Bartley Gorman, a bare-knuckle boxer born in (my home town of) Uttoxeter,’ explains Meadows.
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Japan has taken the gloves off for a bare-knuckle fight with China to claim the title of leading economic power in South-east Asia.
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That kind of bare-knuckled competition is proving to be a boon to travelers on the World Wide Web.
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Fight ClubPlot: Office worker Ed Norton is introduced to a cool bare-knuckle club by Brad Pitt.
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While JB's letter was heated and bare-knuckled, it landed many accurate punches, while your prolix retort was sadly disappointing.
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The phrase originates from the days of early bare-knuckle boxing or prizefighting bouts, a time long before any rules were produced by the Marquess of Queensberry.
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But the bare-knuckle fight I attended was very impressive.
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I read an article in The Ring which claimed that bare-knuckle fighting in barns is safer than official boxing with gloves on.
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How else to explain the ‘Mission Accomplished’ photo-op or the bare-knuckled 2002 Congressional campaign?
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That was the common theme in a feat of bare-knuckled rhetoric not often witnessed by the senators, who are accustomed to considerably more reverence for their positions.
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It's a bare-knuckle fight that builds to a brutal climax.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, the Ultimate Fighting Championship which films men in cages bare-knuckle fighting is broadcast on Sky.
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Bush and his allies have been described as partisan or bare-knuckled, but the problem is more fundamental than that.
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He probably would have been more at home refereeing at a bare-knuckle boxing match - or calling time in a seedy East End pub.
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The same could not be said for Foley, whose Midwestern politesse never quite gelled with the salty bare-knuckles feistiness that's become the DN's trademark.
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He's thin and geeky and doesn't look like he'd be much use in a fight, before or after indoctrination into an underground network of illegal bare-knuckle slugging.
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Sure it's what the Trib called the "bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics" but, hey, I guess that "kumbaya" attack goes by the wayside.
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A second tainted election, followed by more bare-knuckled partisan conflict, Mr. Christopher said, would be far more damaging.
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No matter what the season brings, few Sundays will match the last two weeks with bare-knuckle wins over old foes and the fresh air of a new coach ....
More players on Shanahan vs. Zorn
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No longer are its streets thronged with bare-knuckled flyweights, the long-term unemployed huddling for warmth around braziers, or urchin children.
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Guards, especially "good" guards with records of mildness and fair dealing, were given a miserably hard time; and several guards, good and bad, were engaged in bare-knuckle combat by convicts made brave with home-brewed pruno.
Why Prisoners Riot
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Despite the difference in rank, Jake and the sergeant had formed a strong friendship, probably because Jake had been the only man to put the bull-necked Tatro on his back when the men tried a little bare-knuckle boxing.
Come Again No More
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It's a bare-knuckled fight to the death for the American manufacturing worker.
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I read an article which claimed that bare-knuckle fighting in barns is safer than official boxing with gloves on.
