Politics, after all, is a full-contact sport that requires both an offense and a defense.
It allows educational organizations to prohibit the opposite sex from participating in a single-sex contact sport.
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Contrary to legend, what Thoreau can teach us is that the hunt for ideas is a contact sport.
Organization design is where the spectator sport of talking about the future of work turns into a contact sport.
Politics is a contact sport, and contests won't be won by pulling punches and peddling pabulum to the masses.
Duke was found to be unable to claim the single-sex contact sport exemption.
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"This game has become a very aggressive contact sport, " said Larry Hare, the assistant athletics director at the University of Kansas.
Other good things about netball are that it is a non-contact sport, and it is cheap, requiring only goals and a ball.
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But he might still be taken aback by the extent to which politics has become a full contact sport in this country.
Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot or will not address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion, you should not be in a leadership role.
Politics in Israel has always been a contact sport, but rather than battle to win over the center, an increasing number of political battles are conducted entirely on the fringes.
Squash players also have a tendency to blow up - smashing rackets and outbursts - because they have to deal with the added dimension of sharing personal space in a non-contact sport, he says.
This full-contact sport provides an important competitive outlet.
In the case, a jury found that Heather Sue Mercer, a kicker, was discriminated against by the Duke University football team, a program designated as a single-sex contact sport, for her gender when she was kicked off it.
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When I got the opportunity to play a contact sport that wasn't as violent as football, I got the best of both worlds: my parents got a sport that wasn't as violent as football, and I got to hit people.
Last year almost 360, 000 children played a non-contact form of the sport at school, according to USA Rugby, the sport's national governing body.
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Scientists at Imperial College London examined the force of ball-to-head contact in soccer because it has been rarely studied compared with other types of head contact in the world's most popular sport, such as player head-to-head contact.
Rules prohibit bringing competitors down, but contact is common and the sport is known for its crashes.
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He sent a strong, clear message to Gregg Williams and the Saints that illegal forms of contact and violence within the sport will not be permitted.
Karch Kiraly, the assistant coach of the U.S. women's volleyball team and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the sport, says that physical contact is a sign of closeness.
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New York Knicks guard Toney Douglas, whose brother Harry plays wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons, said he and his brother are similar athletes but that Toney prefers the "mellow" sport of basketball while his brother likes contact.
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Brookes was in regular contact with Pierre de Coubertin, a fellow supporter of public health through sport.
Second, it turns out that world-record speeds in racewalking are mathematically impossible, unless both feet are losing contact with the ground, which is a violation of the rules of the sport.
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