cut-and-thrust

The truth is that ministers who came to office with no experience of the cut-and-thrust of policy find themselves at the mercy of shrewder heads.

The maths of coalition has opened the door to lobbyists | Simon Jenkins 2011

It's more of a slimmed down cut-and-thrust sword, Mikken's idea of what a bravo's sword would look like.

Stick 'Em With the Pointy End grrm 2010

Gingrich's debating skills owe much to the political cut-and-thrust from his Congress days.

Romney and Gingrich aim to find ways to wound in South Carolina duel 2012

Points of order were okay, proper argument was okay: natural instinct and a near-primal taste for the cut-and-thrust took over, and she really quite enjoyed it.

It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

It is hard to see how you can transpose the American cut-and-thrust restructuring model in continental Europe with its complex politico-industrial-socioeconomic systems, especially in an election year in France.

Sound Politics: Boeing Soars, Most Employees Gain 2007

For better or worse, that means much of the time the driver is fighting extra throttle resistance in suburban cut-and-thrust driving.

2009 Infiniti FX35: Lessons from a car that drives itself 2009

Except, in the cut-and-thrust of politics, one might describe it as public office without public service.

Cedric Perrier: Sarah Palin: What the British Might Think... 2009

It is common, especially in recent months, to hear people asserting that the Dalai Lama is a wise and even heroic spiritual leader who is nonetheless a little out of his depth in the cut-and-thrust of realpolitik, which observes rules and priorities very different from the monastic ones.

'A Hell on Earth' Iyer, Pico 2009

For better or worse, that means much of the time the driver is fighting extra throttle resistance in suburban cut-and-thrust driving.

2009 Infiniti FX35: Lessons from a car that drives itself 2009

"Funny the Way It Is" is a busy, catchy bundle of tension and release, with Tinsley's violin slicing across the band's cut-and-thrust and a grunting riff in the bridge that gets under your skin like another chorus.

Rolling Stone: 4 stars for new DMB album Peter Schorsch 2009