Climate change regulation is the latest issue to come front and center in this political tug-of-war.
With Mr Lafontaine gone, the tug-of-war at the centre of government should also be gone.
This kind of tug-of-war has been going on for 60 years ever since the CIA was created.
Central to the movie's storyline is the constant tug-of-war between the animal "actors" and their ever-changing environment.
What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.
After paying a couple of the contested bills, Otari hunkered down into a yearlong tug-of-war with the carrier.
Already the tug-of-war is under way among Mr Obama's would-be advisers over the principles that should shape it.
In Colorado in 2007, two students partially severed their hands in a tug-of-war.
Dolle said that Arcelor had been aware of Mittal's intentions for several months, and was steeled for the ensuing tug-of-war.
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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Suharto's rule has always been a tug-of-war between technocrats and cronies, between those who craft policy and those who dispense patronage.
The tug-of-war within the Senate over these issues became clear when Sen.
Indeed, Apple will very likely be one of the stocks that will plunge when the Obama-Congress tug-of-war starts over the debt ceiling.
Consumer analysts watching the airline distribution tug-of-war worry that taking away options for price comparison makes shopping for low air fares more difficult.
Khamenei has handily won the tug-of-war that ensued, and the contest has left Ahmadinejad marginalized and largely sidelined in substantive national politics.
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.
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.
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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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.
Garner will need all his charm and resolve to referee the tug-of-war between the departments of Defense and State for influence over the reconstruction process.
"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.
The stock market is an endless tug-of-war between bulls and bears.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Thus, like every other technology human beings have ever invented, says Ms Verclas, the tools of nomadism arm both sides in the eternal tug-of-war between good and evil.
For its part, Hamas is frustrated with the diplomatic tug-of-war.
Until then expect a tug-of-war between Hobbit-town and the City.
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