Use the power of your nonverbal messages before you have to resort to verbal fisticuffs.

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Until 1960 they actually decided things, complete with platform fights, back-room deals and occasional fisticuffs.

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The Karmapas' seat-in-exile, at Rumtek near Gangtok, has seen fisticuffs between supporters of the rival claimants.

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Later the same day, lawyers from both sides got into verbal fisticuffs in open court, over something they'd supposedly settled, earlier.

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The fisticuffs in court over the timing of innocent spouse claims continues.

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Even when the fisticuffs ended, Canadian pitching coach Denis Boucher was hit in the face by a full water bottle thrown from the crowd.

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While never condoned, it is recognized that there is a risk of physical injury from a harsh tackle and occasionally emotions will boil over into fisticuffs.

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For him, gender-bending fisticuffs are a thing of the past.

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More fisticuffs burst out, Paul Tito heavily engaged with Hartley and opposing locks Lawes and Christian Day, before Parks slotted over the penalty to level the match at 6-6 on the half-hour mark.

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Sure, she's photogenic, knows how to look natural on camera (not an easy task) and can more than hold her own in the fisticuffs, but she's not (yet) all that adept with her lines.

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This is quiet diplomacy not headline making fisticuffs.

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Travis Kalanick is no stranger to corporate fisticuffs.

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The refusal to look back also robs Gore of another key argument, which is that Washington is a place where fisticuffs take over when footwork fails, and it is the most trenchant fighters who win the day.

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O'Gara and Dragons replacement Shaun Connor saw yellow for a bout of fisticuffs at a ruck close to the Welsh side's line and just moments later, Williams used his brute strength to barge past Harris and Martyn and Thomas for his second touchdown.

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That's when the fisticuffs began.

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But more than just an appropriate level of fisticuffs, the difficulty level remains constant throughout, rather than ramping up as you go, and meant that he could keep up with his older siblings without the usual headaches of needing my help every five seconds.

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