All too often, though, the wheels of regulation grind in only one direction.
"In practice, the economy doesn't grind to a halt for one day, " Mr. Shaw says.
The campaign is trying to grind out a piecemeal win, based less around one grand gesture than a series of smaller adjustments.
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We were preparing for a seven game grind of a series and we're now into one.
"I told the guys coming into this game that it's going to be one of those low-scoring games, one of those nights that we have to grind out, so that's what we did, " said Perkins, who won the 2008 NBA title with Boston.
One industry sure to grow even if the tough times grind on will be mobile broadband.
"One thing I have learned is that you have to grind down sides and that took us 60 or 70 minutes, " he said.
Joining that government may have been a brave move - one that saved Zimbabwe from collapse - but the daily grind of politics and compromise has left the MDC looking diminished and unprepared.
One might argue that the wheels of any European justice might grind slowly.
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This game we play, it's one of these games where it's a job and it's a grind at times.
Nothing makes me grind my teeth so fiercely as facing four or five guards at once while each approaches me one at a time.
One easy way to raise the stakes, so to speak, is to use steak and grind it yourself, or ask your butcher to do it.
He continues to grind out new Easy companies--seven of them are launching this year or next--betting that one has to pay off.
He continues to grind out new Easy companies--six of them are launching this year or next--betting that one has to pay off.
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