Too often we are tempted to throw in the towel and give up on doing something hard.
About 4.5 years into my first company, YouSendIt, I was ready to throw in the towel.
The last of the sell-side bulls on Research In Motion are starting to throw in the towel.
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Is it time to throw in the towel and head for the hills?
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"It's going to be difficult, of course, but we are never going to throw in the towel, " he said.
The answer to this sad episode is not to throw in the towel.
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Ready to throw in the towel, sell your investments, maybe invest in a good solid safe for your home.
So by the middle of the second half it was clear that Vilanova was ready to throw in the towel.
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They were ready to throw in the towel, but after I offered a few suggestions, they had a huge breakthrough.
Rather than meeting social discord head on, fighting for dominance within a group, women instead tend to throw in the towel.
Automakers certainly aren't ready to throw in the towel: All have increased incentives yet again to inject some heat into spring.
However, Dunne upped the pace in a big way in the eighth and Martinez's camp decided to throw in the towel.
At the end of the sixth round, fearing for the boxer's safety, his manager, Joe Gould, wanted to throw in the towel.
You can easily become discouraged and tempted to throw in the towel.
Gammer impressed in the early rounds against the German-based Italian but then injured his right hand and was forced to throw in the towel.
We conclude that even though our Billionaires Index did not beat the market in 2012, we are not yet ready to throw in the towel.
On the opposite side of the argument, some prison reformers worried that rewarding guilty pleas further might put undue pressure on innocents to throw in the towel.
If premiums continue to rise at the current clip, both of these factions will have to throw in the towel too, but not in a good way.
But Andrew Kohut, the president of the Pew Research Center, has come up with a study indicating it isn't time yet for the Republicans to throw in the towel.
Murray was not about to throw in the towel, however, and he was pumped up at the start of the second after recovering from 0-40 in the opening game.
But Hertha refused to throw in the towel and Ramos secured a point for the basement side when he powerfully headed Raffael's corner past Rene Adler in the dying moments.
The decision to throw in the towel also marks a turnaround for Konrad Hummler, Wegelin's managing director since 1991, and one of the partners whose own personal finances were potentially at stake.
But Salford, who brought on Italian international Carlo Napolitano for his debut, refused to throw in the towel with Malcolm Alker and Gary Broadbent going over with two Blakeley conversions making it 40-22.
By that stage Rovers had levelled and went on to capitalise on their numerical advantage when McCarthy struck, but Chelsea's refusal to throw in the towel ensured the tie went the full distance.
With all the federal dollars on the line and cuts in payments to facilities who serve the Medicaid population, states would be foolish not to throw in the towel on fighting reform.
The other portrays Mr Brown's hostility to the euro as part of an unrelenting campaign to undermine Mr Blair until the prime minister finally decides to throw in the towel and hand over to Mr Brown.
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And with Wal-Mart's stock price stuck in neutral for the past five years, some shareholders are asking whether it's time to throw in the towel by settling most of these suits and getting back to minding the stores.
But Wednesday had won only one of their previous 11 league games going into Sunday's encounter and, despite refusing to throw in the towel after twice falling behind, they will play third-tier football next term after a largely disappointing season.
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