One of several problems that delayed the formation of the new government was the rear guard action waged by the Shiite Fadila Party to hang onto the Oil Ministry, which it controlled under former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari.
You and your lawyers want to thrash this out, case by case, fighting a trench-warfare, rear-guard action?
Even now it is waging a rear-guard action to undo the easing that the FASB promulgated in April.
Brik may be fighting a rear-guard action.
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The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones, iPods, YouTube and now the mobile internet.
On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.
Attached to the jacket with its robust clip on the rear side, the camcorder takes action shots from the user's point of view while leaving the hands free for action.
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Perhaps conflict may rear its head once more if the class action produces a big bundle of money, and the time comes to sort out who gets how much of it.
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The shoulder buttons have been pushed more to rear to be easier to press, while the action buttons and D-pad have better tactile feel and responsiveness.
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At low speeds, torque vectoring can be used on the Porsche to assist with steering by powering the rear wheels at different rates to create a turning action.
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Three of Padraic MacKernan's uncles served with the RAF - one of them, a rear gunner in a Lancaster bomber, was killed in action in 1945.
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The real action at techshop in Menlo Park, Calif. is a few rooms in the rear of a 15, 000-square-foot warehouse.
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