Unfortunately, the generals and factory bosses have held their own in the initial skirmishing.
Before we are all forced to take to the hills, the verbal skirmishing will get harsher yet.
Take the one big issue that the pre-election skirmishing has already thrown up the future of the London Underground.
In truth, the OWS protestors are only skirmishing over the distribution of the spoils system they claim to abhor.
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In any event, internecine skirmishing within the ruling establishment is still going on ensuring that Iran's crisis is far from over.
That skirmishing starts with the 2011 payroll tax cut which, after a bruising battle last December, Congress extended only to the end of February.
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Lord Strathclyde, the new Tory leader in the upper house, indicated during this week's skirmishing that he will honour Lord Cranborne's deal with Mr Blair.
Vietnam is not the only nation skirmishing with Chinese patrol boats.
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Some say the delay reflects fears within the National Transitional Council, the 43-man proto-parliament under Mr Abdul Jalil, that the end of military fighting might herald the onset of harsher political skirmishing.
Even as industry groups representing emerging energies like solar and wind have gained clout, they've suffered setbacks in legislative skirmishing over relatively non-controversial priorities such as tax credits for renewable energy.
Tara Wall, the deputy editorial editor of the Washington Times, said that moderate and conservative Republicans have been skirmishing throughout this election year, and that the Powell endorsement had brought that fight into the open.
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