How To Use Tug-of-war In A Sentence
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But when an adult supervisor and other counselors organized a tug-of-war, Allan's instincts told him to refuse to join in.
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They included volleyball and relays, but the perennial favourite was the interdepartmental Tug-of-War.
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We entertained ourselves with a talent show, boxing matches and tug-of-war duels.
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Highlights also included majorettes, a steel band, a fun dog show and a tug-of-war competition.
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We entertained ourselves with a talent show, boxing matches and tug-of-war duels.
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There also will be a tug-of-war, penalties competition and a ladies' five-a-side football tournament.
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Kessler was with the agency in 1992 when nutritional labels were first introduced, and has called the tug-of-war between the FDA and the food industry at that time a "battle royale.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard's legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world's greatest con man.
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Once the victims of a tug-of-love between parents, William and Harry were now the victims of a public tug-of-war.
WILLIAM
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Amid a tug-of-war over a key endorsement from Senator Thompson (Jeffrey Wright), Stevie is soon staring down tumult and at the center of power plays whipped around by reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei), Duffy, and Morris's campaign manager, Paul Zara, who is portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman with such convincement one can just about smell the cheap coffee on his breath.
Felice Arenas: George Clooney: 'Hollywood Could Teach a Lot to Politicians'
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This occasion was followed by fun tug-of-war events for children and adults.
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They join the tug-of-war game over familiar policy arguments.
Ideological Games of Tug-of-War, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He had called the dog closer to the oilstone and was playing tug-of-war with him.
THE BROKEN GOD
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She tried to imagine, but couldn't because of the tug-of-war of revulsion and curiosity going on inside her.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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To win a tug-of-war with a big striper or bull red, select something with slower gears but better cranking power.
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The tug-of-war between the two is anything but respectable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The last event was the traditional tug-of-war, in which a round robin knockout decided the winner.
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It was the perennial tug-of-war between engagement and withdrawal.
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A smile lit her face as the tug-of-war tide turned.
The Fugitive Waits
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You're like a lion that's stumbled upon a three-way tug-of-war over a leopard's kill.
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But on the other hand, having not offered trust cues to either side in the tug-of-war, one is considered a freak by both.
Ideological Games of Tug-of-War, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Expertly juggling pathos and humour, Baumbach has created a queasy tug-of-war between surface civility and subterranean resentment.
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It was a bitter, acrimonious divorce that involved lawyers and an emotional tug-of-war over access to Leon.
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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.
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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
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But when an adult supervisor and other counselors organized a tug-of-war, Allan's instincts told him to refuse to join in.
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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
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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.
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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
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The tug-of-war comes at a time when the ethics committee is facing an exceptional workload.
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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.
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The policeman won two golds and a silver as part of the tug-of-war team.
The Sun
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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
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Differences in birth rates across time and between cultures would occur as one side or the other gains increased leverage in this tug-of-war.
Who Wants More Kids?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Other possibilities include sumo-wrestling competitions, kayak races, tennis tournaments, water-skiing, tug-of-war, carome (a Mauritian version of shove-halfpenny) and petanque competitions, and so on.
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Disappointed and hurt over something trivial, I had engaged God in a mini tug-of-war, refining my rebuttals and surrebuttals in the process.
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As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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There was a constant tug-of-war between the military and the President.
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The tug-of-war over the ICE program highlights the tension between states and the federal government in the absence of a legislative fix on immigration.
Calif. may let locals opt out of immigration checks
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There was a constant tug-of-war between the military and the President.
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It is unlikely that such a project manager would do well arbitrating a tug-of-war regarding moving to a standard chart of accounts between finance, the vendor and another business unit.
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The following afternoon, the remainder of the events took place, and they varied from a tug-of-war contest to a game of Trivial Pursuit.