"It is a long war of attrition with no end in sight, " wrote Gerges.
Recognizing Hannibal was too strong to confront directly, Fabius conducted a masterful war of attrition.
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The opening quarter had been a war of attrition with the sides sounding each other out.
But after a bright start the game quickly became more a war of attrition.
If health-care reform had been a war of attrition, financial reform was a promising liaison.
"It is a war of attrition and you just want to fight which Trotty's done, " Pietersen commented.
Westmoreland had failed in his campaign to destroy the Vietcong through a war of attrition that emphasized devastating firepower.
"With fuel prices and the fare environment the way it is, you have a war of attrition, " moans Potter.
Johnson's strategy was a war of attrition, a disastrous choice for a democracy.
As much as any controversy, the compensation debate is a war of attrition.
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Women and girls have become primary targets in the war of attrition between the armed groups in eastern Congo.
Neither organised their industrial war effort soon enough or comprehensively enough to cope with a prolonged war of attrition.
It's called a war of attrition, a tactic favored by large incumbents like Microsoft against newer, smaller, speedier rivals .
Many people have predicted a war of attrition up front but Du Plessis said the Springboks' backs could win it.
But my gut tells me that Clinton will win the war of attrition and triumph over Obama for the nomination.
Given these numbers it is hard to see how TriPath will be able to win a war of attrition with Cytyc.
Firms with sufficient persistence which is to say, firms with plenty of money to spend on patent lawyers can usually win this war of attrition.
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From 1948 to 1967, it carried on a war of attrition against Israeli civilians by attempting to divert vital water resources from Israel.
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Finally, now's as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the peripheral casualties from this war of attrition.
Both sides emptied their substitutes' benches as the war of attrition took its toll, but it was England who ended the match the strongest.
The progressive Lie Forrit holds an entry for Willie Amos, while former Gold Cup winner War Of Attrition is one of 12 Irish-trained possibles.
If the lockout becomes a war of attrition based purely on financial reserves, players would obviously lose since only they need this money to survive.
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Less hubristic and more informed leaders would have realised that both countries had the manpower and industrial resources to prevail in a war of attrition.
Beef Or Salmon first won the three-mile feature race in 2004 by beating Kicking King and then defeated War of Attrition last year for a second victory.
Instead, Mr. Scheuer wrote, Mr. bin Laden "has anticipated a war of attrition, one that might last decades, " so he began passing the torch to younger al Qaeda activists.
Similarly, as the fiscal cliff looms, the war of attrition based on party lines that is being waged threatens to hinder the already sluggish growth of the U.S. economy.
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An environmental lawsuit against a major corporation can resemble a war of attrition, and in 1993 few observers would have predicted that the plaintiffs could endure as long as they did.
By 1916 and 1917 the relentless slaughter of a war of attrition had so deepened enmity on both sides that friendly meetings in no-man's-land were all but unthinkable, even at Christmas.
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