You and your lawyers want to thrash this out, case by case, fighting a trench-warfare, rear-guard action?

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After years of considering themselves the cutting edge of Congress, they found themselves fighting rear-guard battles instead.

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Even now it is waging a rear-guard action to undo the easing that the FASB promulgated in April.

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The judge's clumsy move is a rear-guard action against a basic freedom.

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Brik may be fighting a rear-guard action.

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The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones, iPods, YouTube and now the mobile internet.

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On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.

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