But on Wednesday, both the BSF and the BDR troops started digging in and calling in reinforcement - bringing back memories of a fierce border clash between the two sides two years ago.
That's followed by a ten minute rule bill from the Lib Dem John Leetch on Road Safety - and then it's on to consideration of the latest set of Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill - with peers still digging their heels in over the proposed under-occupancy penalty for Housing Benefit and the Universal Credit.
Canavan does most of his digging in the dark -- not because he's trying to hide but because he's almost completely blind and the sunlight hurts his eyes.
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Mr Prowse was invited to the Commons by Mr Duncan after he was filmed digging a pound-shaped hole in the Rutland and Melton MP's lawn in protest at his expenses claims.
Her oily, gold-digging, hypocrite accomplice in anachronistic 1960s naughtiness Peter (Matthew Marsh), her diffident gay son Nick (Rory Kinnear) and raunchy daughter Libby's (Helen McCrory) bickering are great performances, but don't actually add up to a play.
Although the former Republican presidential candidate would say he and former President Bill Clinton cut deals that led to a record budget surplus and the biggest economic boom in modern American history, many say the Georgia Republican's ideologically unyielding, take-no-prisoners brand of leadership ushered in an era of heel-digging politics that persists to this day.
This has surprised many in Pakistan, given that a vibrant private-sector electronic media has lately shown itself to be aggressively competitive in digging up important news and follow-up stories.
But other big players are digging in:The set-top box makers Scientific-Atlanta and Pioneer and the satellite provider EchoStar lobbed antitrust actions against Gemstar after Yuen had hit them with patent suits.
Norm Coleman, who did sterling work digging into billions in corruption under Oil-for-Food, is now gone from the Senate.
And I remember that trip giving me a sense of just how immense and how grand this country was, and how diverse it was -- and watching folks digging for clams in Puget Sound, and watching ranchers, and seeing our first Americans guide me through a canyon in Arizona.
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Sadly, someone else had a similar idea with a book, and that resulted in some lawsuits when would-be treasure hunters started digging up land that wasn't theirs to dig, in search of the bounty.
"She talked to me on the phone and said she didn't want me to come home, and that I had to win one for her, " the teary-eyed Webb said after digging deep to overcome the blustery conditions that derailed almost everyone in the field on wind-whipped Bay Course at the Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club.
Five years ago, the Cairngorms Ranger Service launched the Cairngorm Poo Project following a boom in snow-holing, the digging of cave-like shelters into deep snow where walkers can spend a night or two on a hillside.
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One instance shows the controller being split and held like bow and arrow, highlighting that both sides are tracked in relation to each other -- not to mention that the in-game character's weapon automatically changes without any menu-digging by the user.
Well, digging into third-quarter results, the economies of scale one expects in such an enterprise seem slow in coming.
They worked 14-hour days, seven days a week - six days producing munitions in the factory and the seventh digging trenches for the approaching front.
Digging deeper, we find that peak put open interest in the front-month January 2013 series rests at the 10 strike, with more than 386, 000 puts in residence.
After weeks of digging, we finally got a well-placed source to confirm their exact shareholdings in Facebook.
Enticed by the lure of long-term licensing fees, the various industry members seem to be digging in behind their own standards.
Legend has it that if you venture into the forest and find a fern in bloom - although it is nearly a botanical impossibility - start digging.
They spoke to retired Shell employees and spent two days--all they were allowed--in Shell's data room, scouring for updated information and digging through trash looking for signs of rival bidders.
He heard the sound of footsteps, and moments later the deaf-mute girl was kneeling at his side in the little room, digging him out of his tarp, brushing the hair from his forehead with worry in her eyes.
We're dying to hear Google's side of this story and fill in some of the gaps -- and you can bet we're digging as hard as we can for more info.
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Pilar Sanders also filed a separate suit against her husband and his daughter, Deiondra, after she called her stepmother a "gold-digging (expletive)" and "the number one gold digger of the year" in Twitter posts.
The same is true in other cities, of course, which is why digging for insider tips and word-of-mouth directions before a trip always pays off.
Don't you already know -- isn't it already clear this is going to be political theater with each side digging in their heels?
Phoenix planned to take more views of its surroundings to help scientists zero in on a digging site and also take images of its onboard instruments, including its trench-digging robotic arm.
Mr. Summers conducted it with epic sweep and passion, digging into the score with increasing fervor as the four-hour performance progressed, making up for some shortcomings in the production and casting with the grandeur of the orchestral sound.
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