• What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.

    NEWYORKER: The Face of Facebook

  • In Colorado in 2007, two students partially severed their hands in a tug-of-war.

    BBC: Teenagers lose fingers in tug-of-war accident

  • Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.

    CNN: FORTRESS SUHARTO

  • All this women-specific discussion often comes across as bizarre, since few see the world, or even the economy, as a tug-of-war between the sexes.

    FORBES: Is A "War On Women" The Best That President Obama Can Do?

  • "There's a tug-of-war going on as to which one is going to be the ultimate benchmark, " said Michael Sabo, senior commodities broker at RJO Futures.

    WSJ: Brent Benchmark Is Skewed by Crude Measure

  • Many eco-nomists call it a tug-of-war between rising corporate profits and investment versus falling consumer incomes and spending - with the winner still in doubt.

    CNN: You Need Two Legs To Walk

  • Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.

    BBC: Teenagers lose fingers in tug-of-war accident

  • Until then expect a tug-of-war between Hobbit-town and the City.

    ECONOMIST: Two views on new banking rules are better than one

  • The torrid growth set off a tug-of-war inside MCI: The sales side pursued resellers with alacrity, but the finance side worried about the resellers' ability to pay their bills.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Spurs eyed Leeds boss George Graham - who had won glory with north London archrivals Arsenal - and engaged in a public tug-of-war with the Yorkshire side for the Scotsman.

    BBC: Le Arsenal and Le Takeover

  • Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.

    ECONOMIST: The Crimean war

  • "There was a lot of toing-and-froing, " said Strydom, without commenting directly on rumours that the squad had again been the subject of a tug-of-war between the selectors and Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse.

    BBC: Nel discarded as SA quota bites

  • Astronomers have long theorized that there are many planets that have drifted away from their home stars, whether it's a too-loose gravitational pull during the planet's formation or a stellar tug-of-war.

    ENGADGET: University of Montreal detects an orbitless planet, shows that stars don't have an iron grip (video)

  • Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • Liverpool have confirmed they have reached an agreement with both player and club for the 24-year-old, who has been the subject of a tug-of-war in recent weeks with big-spending Manchester City and Johnson's former side Chelsea also in the running for his signature.

    CNN: Johnson poised to complete Liverpool move

  • The outcome of meeting may have a big political impact inside the FDA. Many industry-watchers are seeing this as a tug-of-war between the career FDA employees who run the drug research division, who have kept Avandia on the market so far, and the the Obama appointees who currently run the agency.

    FORBES: Three Things To Remember During The Avandia Panel

  • After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.

    FORBES: Dialing for Dollars

  • The deal came with handcuffs preventing Liberty from seizing full control, but those provisions recently expired, leaving Malone and Karmazin in a public tug-of-war for the company.

    FORBES: Sirius XM's Mel Karmazin: 'I'm One of the Most Underpaid Executives in the History of Executive Payment'

  • As a woman in a startup, you are likely familiar with the rollercoaster ups and downs of funding, ongoing tug-a-war with the competition and the stress of pushing out the next release.

    FORBES: Sometimes All You Need Is A Boost

  • His next wife would certainly not stand as a trophy in the tug-of-war between Lei and fate, death, and any mystery beyond his understanding.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • The two, both aged under 18, were participating in a lunchtime game of tug-of-war at South El Monte High School near Los Angeles on Monday.

    BBC: Teenagers lose fingers in tug-of-war accident

  • Italy's Fincantieri and Finmeccanica, who together own Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a naval-systems company, are watching the Franco-German tug-of-war from the sidelines.

    ECONOMIST: The French want to consolidate Europe's naval yards

  • There is a "definite tug of war" between recognizing the value of a formula for low-income people and the problems of shoehorning complicated, unique marriages into a single approach, said Rose Mary Bailly, the commission's executive director.

    WSJ: New York Divorce Law's Alimony Aftermath

  • Events include wild elephant hunts, tug-of-war between elephants and men, demonstrations of log-pulling skills, and a parade of elephants outfitted for medieval warfare.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch

  • The counselor I spoke to at the ASPCA behavior helpline was forthcoming and helpful, providing some realistic suggestions on how to keep a dog from mouthing. (She suggested stopping tug-of-war games, not letting the dog win, and teaching him "ouch" or "easy" to know when to ease up).

    CNN: Site-Seer: Fetching an obedient dog from the Web

  • But it is a clear sign of the growing frustration in Congress over the tug-of-war between supporting U.S. technology companies in politically charged countries and America's long support of human rights abroad.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The tug-of-war over Article 18 has become a virility test for the Berlusconi government, which has so far not lived up to most of its bold electoral promises.

    ECONOMIST: Italian labour law and politics

  • It is here that you will find the depiction of the churning of the Ocean of Milk: Various deities taking part in what at first appears to be tug-of-war, but is in fact a search for a potion that will confer eternal life, a process that involves churning the sea with the help of an enormous snake.

    BBC: Millennium mayhem at Angkor Wat

  • They did pushups, twirled hula hoops, and competed at dodge ball and tug-of-war before the first lady triumphed over the comedian in a climactic potato sack race.

    NPR: First Lady Jokes About Hosting 'Tonight Show'

  • The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.

    ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

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