While the search for better investment returns goes on, however, it's important to step back occasionally to appreciate what makes possible a net yield to be fought for instead of a zero sum to be fought over.
The roots of the row stretch back to the parliamentary elections, which followed a procedure set by an electoral law providing for two-thirds of the seats to be allocated by party lists and the rest to be fought by individuals running as independents.
"It's going to be a closely fought battle to see who wins, it is all to play for, " said Mr Bailey.
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Some may think that in these days of devolution, the debate is a tokenistic patronising anachronism, but with an election to be fought in Wales shortly (a shock, I know, to 50% of you) the exchanges were lively enough.
Each beacon might be deserted, or contain friendlies offering support, or an enemy ship to be fought or escaped with another faster than light jump.
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The argument about to what extent EA is responsible for these changes to games, and how much the invisible hand of the market is to blame, will be fought over for a long time to come.
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Similarly, in representing the reprehensible, the Legal Aid lawyer is going to be fought tooth and nail by the prosecutors and the judges, both of whom have the duty to fairly and ethically keep the reprehensible and the dangerous off of the streets.
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It is going to be a closely fought game but the sort of game you want to play in.
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There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference.
The Earl says he believed historians were coming to the view that "it had to be fought out".
And I've always said if there's a fight there to be fought, then I'll fight it for James.
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The election of 2012 promises to be fought on the issues and it will be won by women.
The eldest, Lothair, got the middle bit, destined to be fought over endlessly.
The Tories said party policy was for the election to be fought separately.
The trend is most marked among educated teenagers, whose exasperated mothers either never wore the veil, or actively fought to be liberated from it.
From the beginning of the Iraq war, a number of officers and policy intellectuals, including Petraeus, believed that the war had to be fought a different way.
And, with history as our teacher, I am pretty certain that the classroom is where the battle for change and equality will continue to be fought and won.
The rights that we believe that we have here in the United States did not just all from the sky one day but had to be fought for.
Anonymous does need to be fought.
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George W. may nonetheless fall for it -- as his father did before him in 1992 when Bill Clinton and his Rasputin, James Carville, pronounced that it was "the economy, stupid, " and Bush Sr. effectively allowed the campaign to be fought on territory and terms of his opponent's choosing.
We must accept that the conventional, kid-gloves approach to socially responsible investing -- divesting shares in "bad" companies that nevertheless continue to exist -- is too weak an instrument to force change and its well-meaning practitioners too soft to enter the fray when emotionally and politically charged battles need to be fought.
It would be dangerously naive to think that terrorism can effectively be fought in isolation.
By this point the body has been overwhelmed, since there is too much virus to be effectively fought-off.
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Bierman said it could be that since business owners fought to keep their businesses alive and profitable during the recession, they may have retained their cost-cutting mentality.
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So here would be an example where, you know, your hard-fought-for color is going to be really bad in the gallery.
He was extradited to the UK in June 1975, and stood trial in 1976 on various charge including theft and forgery, continuing to be an active MP as he fought - unsuccessfully - his own defence, pleading not guilty due to insanity.
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