The haredi parties, who have been Mr Netanyahu's loyal allies, are girding for battle.
It's girding to defeat several pending bills that would correct some marketplace excesses.
When it ceases to be so, the tax theory girding it is off base, in my opinion.
The keepers of Wall Street history were girding for the storm as well.
Business lobbyists were girding for battle even before the budget's unveiling.
Mr. SETH STEVENSON (Ad Critic, Slate Magazine): The 2006 World Cup kicks off on June 9, and Nike and Adidas are already girding themselves for a marketing battle.
While Covidien has a large pharmaceutical business--it's the largest U.S. manufacturer of acetaminophen, the ingredient in Tylenol, and opiate painkillers--Meelia isn't girding to compete with drug giants like Merck.
Will local conservatism mix with the imported variety to forge a new style of Catholicism, girding for fresh battles with secularism and longing for a reversal of the Reformation?
Some see a leftist group girding itself to battle a right-wing reformist People's Party (PP) government, led by Mariano Rajoy, that is likely to win power in the next election.
But places like Southwark have little time to rest on their laurels: they are girding themselves for yet another of the Church of England's rancorous internal battles, this time over money, not sex.
Spaniards from all walks of life, from consumers to homeowners to government employees, are worriedly girding for the bite of the harshest economic-austerity program in the nearly four decades since Spain returned to democracy.
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