The opening quarter had been a war of attrition with the sides sounding each other out.
But after a bright start the game quickly became more a war of attrition.
If health-care reform had been a war of attrition, financial reform was a promising liaison.
"It is a war of attrition and you just want to fight which Trotty's done, " Pietersen commented.
Westmoreland had failed in his campaign to destroy the Vietcong through a war of attrition that emphasized devastating firepower.
"With fuel prices and the fare environment the way it is, you have a war of attrition, " moans Potter.
Johnson's strategy was a war of attrition, a disastrous choice for a democracy.
As much as any controversy, the compensation debate is a war of attrition.
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It's called a war of attrition, a tactic favored by large incumbents like Microsoft against newer, smaller, speedier rivals .
Many people have predicted a war of attrition up front but Du Plessis said the Springboks' backs could win it.
Given these numbers it is hard to see how TriPath will be able to win a war of attrition with Cytyc.
From 1948 to 1967, it carried on a war of attrition against Israeli civilians by attempting to divert vital water resources from Israel.
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If the lockout becomes a war of attrition based purely on financial reserves, players would obviously lose since only they need this money to survive.
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Less hubristic and more informed leaders would have realised that both countries had the manpower and industrial resources to prevail in a war of attrition.
Instead, Mr. Scheuer wrote, Mr. bin Laden "has anticipated a war of attrition, one that might last decades, " so he began passing the torch to younger al Qaeda activists.
An environmental lawsuit against a major corporation can resemble a war of attrition, and in 1993 few observers would have predicted that the plaintiffs could endure as long as they did.
By 1916 and 1917 the relentless slaughter of a war of attrition had so deepened enmity on both sides that friendly meetings in no-man's-land were all but unthinkable, even at Christmas.
It is the player who holds all the aces, and he could inflict serious damage on United's own transfer plans if he decides to become embroiled in a war of attrition with Ferguson.
The set was turning into a war of attrition with an occasional flash of brilliance thrown into the mix, but it came to life in game 10 when Roddick, leading 5-4, applied serious pressure to the Berdych serve.
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As the early sparkle faded into a war of attrition, Rafael was fortunate to escape with only a booking for a late lunge on Wilson Palacios, who swiftly exacted revenge - although the Brazilian's demand that referee Mike Dean produce the yellow card did him no credit.
In other words: sorry Zune fanboys, this is going to be a war of attrition, and while launch week numbers might foretell the Zune's place in the not too distant future, they shouldn't be used as hard and fast figures for today's split up of the market.
Neither organised their industrial war effort soon enough or comprehensively enough to cope with a prolonged war of attrition.
"It is a long war of attrition with no end in sight, " wrote Gerges.
Recognizing Hannibal was too strong to confront directly, Fabius conducted a masterful war of attrition.
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More probable is a long war of attrition with the Rwandan army suppressing the rebels but never defeating them, as long as they can hide in the mountains and forests of Eastern Congo.
The result has been a grinding war of attrition between the religious and the secular in which neither side ever gains the upper hand but each at one time or another comes to believe that the other is prevailing.
The tobacco industry has won six trials in a row now in Florida, a small streak in a grinding war of attrition between cigarette manufacturers and lawyers representing some 8, 000 plaintiffs who were turned loose on the court system after a Florida appeals broke up the nationwide Engle class action in 2003.
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Apple launched the first offensive in the smartphone and tablet wars, but in a long-term war of attrition it is doomed to lose for the same reasons that it lost the original PC war.
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