But there are times when bare-knuckled politics are inescapable, and now is one of them.
After bare-knuckled bargaining with the city, he won tax breaks to refurbish a rundown hotel near Grand Central Terminal.
Mr Kozlowski looks for people like him bare-knuckled, blue-collar fighters, immersed in the business and not the company bureaucracy.
But trusty Lara knuckled down with Chanderpaul to keep the hosts' momentum going.
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The front lawn is dominated by a giant copper beech whose knuckled branches are sturdy enough to support climbing children.
But then he grew up, knuckled down, kept his weight in check and became a model professional deserving of admiration.
Encysive's flameout was but one of several big, recent upsets that should remind investors why the FDA is a white-knuckled ride.
But none seems to have the stomach for the kind of bare-knuckled fight that is needed to make it to the top.
Fixing European budgets remains a messy, bare-knuckled fight, but Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, will argue that he delivered a deal.
Clinton would love to rip off the gloves and go bare-knuckled.
He felt the way in which the squad had knuckled down to the task in hand spoke volumes about the character of the players he had brought in.
Thus, the adoption of gloves to make bare-knuckled boxing safer made it possible for fighters to throw head punches without breaking their hands--resulting in more brain injuries and death.
Gerrard has been one of the Saddlers' most consistent performers so far this season and Mullen is pleased with how the centre-back has knuckled down despite asking for a transfer.
They are living in a world of bare-knuckled competition.
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Junior lawyers who once clung white-knuckled to their jobs are loosening their grips and moving to corporations' law departments or to law firms where they might have better shots at making partner.
However, a funny thing happened on the way to the celebration as a bare knuckled fistfight broke out right about the time it looked like the bears were doomed to yet another defeat.
Powerless to resist new EPA regulations while two Detroit companies were owned by the government, the industry knuckled under to government mandates forcing 35.5 mpg average fuel economy by 2016 and 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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"We've still got a lot to work on and areas to keep improving but to the credit of all the guys and the coaches, we've really knuckled down and worked harder than ever, " he commented.
The very word confers and bestows a kind of superior morality on the individual who has knuckled under, taken control of her often uncontrollable appetites and committed herself to a brief period of self restraint and deprivation around food.
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