What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.
In Colorado in 2007, two students partially severed their hands in a tug-of-war.
Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.
All this women-specific discussion often comes across as bizarre, since few see the world, or even the economy, as a tug-of-war between the sexes.
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"There's a tug-of-war going on as to which one is going to be the ultimate benchmark, " said Michael Sabo, senior commodities broker at RJO Futures.
Many eco-nomists call it a tug-of-war between rising corporate profits and investment versus falling consumer incomes and spending - with the winner still in doubt.
Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.
Until then expect a tug-of-war between Hobbit-town and the City.
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The torrid growth set off a tug-of-war inside MCI: The sales side pursued resellers with alacrity, but the finance side worried about the resellers' ability to pay their bills.
Spurs eyed Leeds boss George Graham - who had won glory with north London archrivals Arsenal - and engaged in a public tug-of-war with the Yorkshire side for the Scotsman.
Perhaps it should serve as a healthy cold shower for any modern civilisational warrior who sets out to present the course of history as a simple tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam.
"There was a lot of toing-and-froing, " said Strydom, without commenting directly on rumours that the squad had again been the subject of a tug-of-war between the selectors and Cricket South Africa president Norman Arendse.
Astronomers have long theorized that there are many planets that have drifted away from their home stars, whether it's a too-loose gravitational pull during the planet's formation or a stellar tug-of-war.
Topham, an English fireplug who was five feet ten and weighed two hundred pounds, could bend iron pokers with his bare hands, roll pewter dishes into cannoli, and win a tug-of-war with a horse.
Liverpool have confirmed they have reached an agreement with both player and club for the 24-year-old, who has been the subject of a tug-of-war in recent weeks with big-spending Manchester City and Johnson's former side Chelsea also in the running for his signature.
The outcome of meeting may have a big political impact inside the FDA. Many industry-watchers are seeing this as a tug-of-war between the career FDA employees who run the drug research division, who have kept Avandia on the market so far, and the the Obama appointees who currently run the agency.
After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.
The deal came with handcuffs preventing Liberty from seizing full control, but those provisions recently expired, leaving Malone and Karmazin in a public tug-of-war for the company.
As a woman in a startup, you are likely familiar with the rollercoaster ups and downs of funding, ongoing tug-a-war with the competition and the stress of pushing out the next release.
His next wife would certainly not stand as a trophy in the tug-of-war between Lei and fate, death, and any mystery beyond his understanding.
The two, both aged under 18, were participating in a lunchtime game of tug-of-war at South El Monte High School near Los Angeles on Monday.
Italy's Fincantieri and Finmeccanica, who together own Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a naval-systems company, are watching the Franco-German tug-of-war from the sidelines.
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There is a "definite tug of war" between recognizing the value of a formula for low-income people and the problems of shoehorning complicated, unique marriages into a single approach, said Rose Mary Bailly, the commission's executive director.
Events include wild elephant hunts, tug-of-war between elephants and men, demonstrations of log-pulling skills, and a parade of elephants outfitted for medieval warfare.
The counselor I spoke to at the ASPCA behavior helpline was forthcoming and helpful, providing some realistic suggestions on how to keep a dog from mouthing. (She suggested stopping tug-of-war games, not letting the dog win, and teaching him "ouch" or "easy" to know when to ease up).
But it is a clear sign of the growing frustration in Congress over the tug-of-war between supporting U.S. technology companies in politically charged countries and America's long support of human rights abroad.
The tug-of-war over Article 18 has become a virility test for the Berlusconi government, which has so far not lived up to most of its bold electoral promises.
It is here that you will find the depiction of the churning of the Ocean of Milk: Various deities taking part in what at first appears to be tug-of-war, but is in fact a search for a potion that will confer eternal life, a process that involves churning the sea with the help of an enormous snake.
They did pushups, twirled hula hoops, and competed at dodge ball and tug-of-war before the first lady triumphed over the comedian in a climactic potato sack race.
The tug-of-war between the states and the federal government has been a perennial of American politics from the founding of the republic, but striking the right balance between the two has always been best achieved in the political arena, not the courtroom.
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