Yet the years had worn down what had once been an enormous tribal pride.
By mid-December, the anti-Tebow resistance was worn down to the contrarians and the clueless.
This had already been worn down by rows over health reform earlier this year.
His boots are worn down so much that he no longer has heels on his shoe.
Some artificial pitches can have a sandpaper effect on sticks and they'll get worn down with time.
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Hints of his plight were provided in disturbing video tapes, in which he appeared worn down and brutalized.
Instead, it has worn down the other team by making their players chase shadows before waiting for a mistake.
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Chopard bauble earrings and a reversed necklace worn down the back anchored the look from slipping into fairytale saccharine.
The 60-year-old retired pharmacist had worn down the joint skiing and hiking and working on his feet for years.
But he was worn down by the formidable Mexican, and he never recovered consciousness after a horrendous 12th-round knock-out.
Islanders have said that parts of the road, along with others on the island, have been worn down to the foundation.
Worn down by the anesthetizing process of flipping through thousands of digital images a day, they miss as much as they find.
The Rams just couldn't get any closer as they were worn down.
"Everyone has a breaking point, everyone runs out of gas, everyone makes mistakes, has moments of weakness, can be worn down, " he said.
The killer whales that feed on mackerel have been found to have very worn down teeth as a result of their feeding behaviour.
And, the not so hidden expense and personal sacrifice needed to manage a large staff 8, 000 miles away have worn down the CEO.
The pope may well have been worn down by the "cumulative impact of the various meltdowns over the last eight years, " Allen said.
Stat was such a explosive alpha in the first half of last season, but at times the 2012 version appears defused, unsure, worn down.
And some of the graves were marked by nothing more than gray, worn down rocks that poked up in a semi-circle like neglected, decaying teeth.
Those conference tables have been getting worn down to plywood lately.
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There is a sense among Western officials that the Taliban is getting worn down and worn out but that is not what the Taliban says.
But the public is exhausted by stories like this, worn down by baseball's lost PED era, comical obfuscations and investigations that fail to offer resolution.
She said she had been "worn down" and signed despite "protesting".
The public's prudishness about the body has finally been worn down, he asserts, by Hollywood gore, television shows like CSI and museum displays presenting polymer-preserved dissected corpses.
In football, many of the players that get cut and have their deals nullified are worn down because of the toll of getting hit on the field.
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They report feeling worn down from fighting back against the slights and petty exclusions that still exist in the darker corners of many organizations, even if they ultimately win those battles.
And sometimes we find that vast mountains of it have been worn down by erosion and that the cassiterite is now spread through the silt and sand of an ancient estuary.
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The reason the relievers are so worn down lies mostly in the pitching of Freddy Garcia and Phil Hughes, who have been consistently terrible, but Ivan Nova and Hiroki Kuroda haven't been much better.
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