Sentences with phrase «war of attrition»

When you have a baby, a slow war of attrition begins.

But three years of a brutal war of attrition failed to elicit a surrender from either side.

Anyways, I know someone who wants to have it out in an all - out online war of attrition when I see one and I'm not doing it.

The relegation battle, which is often more exciting than the race for the title, would become a fascinating war of attrition.

What begins as you using guns to kill zombies from a position of safety turns into a sometimes desperate toe - to - toe war of attrition.

We recognize that an early, prudent business settlement is usually better than a prolonged war of attrition, no matter how successful.

Assayas brings over his abiding interest of the persona swap motif, and the film is essentially a psychological war of attrition between the two women.

During the 1980s, the U.S. supported Iraq in the ten - year war of attrition against Iran.

He turned to look at me with a thousand - yard - stare and began to tell me of his grim war of attrition with the long - eared rodent hoard.

«As a matter of urgency, it is my opinion that a major task before political consultants in Africa is how to transform our election periods into festive periods such that we see electoral exercises no more as wars of attrition but healthy competitions for the good of the people,» he said.

Wars in Age of Empires usually become wars of attrition.

The suggestion is that England, in good Chelsea manner, will wage wars of attrition, though there do seem several bright alternatives up front.

Now, the long, bloody entrenched war of attrition on Lords reform begins and a referendum may be both inevitable and desirable

Football is scene as very much a contact sport (in Argentina its a bloody war of attrition), and tussles are a natural part of the game.

Still, where Conan stands out for me is the combat, which feels more like hack and slash than the standard war of attrition I expected, and the map.

At this time the options seems clear: either the party pulls together and tries to make the best of it or an ongoing war of attrition continues to drive the whole thing into the ground.

Trouble is, Neighbors rarely exploits its generational war of attrition for big laughs or true insight.

The shift from wars of attrition to wars of cognition, Goldfein said in September, has led the Air Force to ask different questions about the weapons and platforms it acquires.

«We want this resolved on the merits rather than through a wasteful war of attrition,» Kanojia wrote at the time.

Transoceanic isolation has allowed it «to postpone belligerence until its enemies were already trapped in exhausting wars of attrition,» reaping enormous strategic gains at a relatively low price in blood and treasure.

But there are a few reasons for us to feel reasonably confident that the clash on Wednesday will not be a tense and nervous war of attrition and that there is a good chance of seeing some goals flying in for Arsenal.

The reason for this is the law should be made by the legislature, not a slow war of attrition by Carter - Ruck.

«In the name of God, the omnipotent and merciful, everyone should beg our Federal Government to end this self - immolating war of attrition.

The question will be to what extent the government should be prepared to clear the decks of everything else in order to possibly deal with a lengthy and very complex war of attrition over this particular piece of legislation.»

«Due to his poorly thought - out policies and the diversion of meagre state resources to prosecute personal wars of attrition against those who helped him get into and consolidate his grip on state power, the Chime's administration has depleted the State's revenue and resources without having the slightest clue on how to rejuvenate the State's Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, which was very healthy at the time he assumed office as governor.

Thus, an inter-species war of attrition ensues for the affections of Bea, who's given little to do beyond be oblivious and fragrant.

McGregor is as strong as ever, here playing a well - intentioned man who has seemingly wandered into a secret war of attrition between two shady, suspicious factions.

To make matters worse, the player's character is constantly losing life and the available food items (to restore health) don't respawn — a true war of attrition, indeed.

Visually dazzling and emotionally distant, Zhang's magnum opus (perhaps only overshadowed by his visceral yet emotionally vacant wuxia wonder Hero from 2002) is one long list of pushes and pulls, a precisely patterned war of attrition that is impossible to leave behind.

It could amount to a self - inflicted war of attrition, a long series of painful public loses that demoralize the troops and embolden opponents, ultimately enfeebling teachers unions.

It would offer the surest way out of what otherwise looks to be a bruising war of attrition that will complicate school improvement for years to come.

It warns: «If the bill, complete with its amendments, does not pass we face the prospect of years of an education funding war of attrition where the only losers will be the children and families of public schools.»

Well, it is, especially when matches amount to button - mashing wars of attrition.

You crank on the difficulty dial in the end game and make every encounter a punishing war of attrition.

The game values intensity and precision over taunting and grandstanding, which tends to turn matches into dry, joyless wars of attrition that would make TV viewers doze off.

But when you have Shitizens (toxic backers who are waging an Internet war of attrition against dissenting opinions) going all out to quash dissent, attack, harass and insult others for having a differing opinion about the project, you end up with a project that even the most even minded people want to see fail; if only to point and laugh at those morons.

Meland says the decision also sends a message to PwC and Coopers and its individual partners that the Quebec courts will not assist in their efforts to «evade financial responsibility for judgments rendered, and to be rendered, against Coopers or in their continued litigation strategy which has been described by the courts as «a scorched - earth war of attrition.

Gun control advocates may see this as war of attrition, but businesses cutting ties with the NRA might not be doing so to take a moral stand — it's just good business.

Still, where Conan stands out for me is the combat, which feels more like hack and slash than the standard war of attrition I expected, and the map.

An exercise that was supposed to be civic and civil turned out to be a bloody war of attrition, territorial conquest and supremacy.

In a war of attrition with Videotron, it will surely lose.

She did this successfully, halting the war of attrition between the two and setting the stage for a united front, then worth $ 6 billion, against Uber's entry to the mainland.

All that is left to do is to rally the troops, win converts wherever possible, and wage a war of attrition.

The war of attrition against your individual spirituality has taken its toll.

«Through the gaps in this gray, gliding line I can glimpse a war of attrition, death versus life and life versus death.