If we force renewables to go toe-to-toe with fossil fuels on costs, they will lose, again and again, until it is too late to matter.

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But the president elect knows Christopher as a cautious lawyer bred for quiet argumentation and persuasion, not an infighter who could go toe-to-toe with that lobby.

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With Polygon, Grant thinks he can not only beat his former employer, but go toe-to-toe with the biggest players in the online gaming world, Gamespot and IGN.

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While the screen of the MediaPad 10 can't go toe-to-toe with the latest iPad, it's quite possibly the best that we've seen in the world of Android tablets.

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The Russians also will go toe-to-toe with British boxers.

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NVIDIA's next superhero-themed mobile chipset has possibly made an early appearance in a leaked side in China, and it looks like it wants to go toe-to-toe with the latest processors from Samsung and Qualcomm.

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Opponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty have their own roster of influential figures who can go toe-to-toe on the implications of this accord with those who lent their name to the letter to Senator Frist.

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Buffalo managed six shots over the next two minutes, including Ott's go-ahead goal to cap a tic-tac-toe play.

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We'll tentatively give Razer a pass on this one -- the Edge Pro's 8GB of RAM and Intel Core i7 CPU can go toe to toe with the best Windows 8 slabs on the horizon, and its dedicated GPU closes the deal.

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