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"tooth and nail" Definitions
  1. with all one's resources or energy; fiercely: We fought tooth and nail but lost.

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We worked tooth and nail for parents to choose Unison.
"Both fought tooth and nail for this conviction," Wimmer said.
"The industry would fight it tooth and nail," Stoltmann said.
"We fought tooth and nail and we won," DeLauro said.
That's something they are already fighting tooth and nail to stop.
They're fighting tooth and nail to stay alive and be relevant.
I fought tooth and nail for a writer's credit on that.
"We're going to fight that tooth and nail," Mr. Saunders said.
It is a recognition that both are fighting tooth and nail.
We'll fight tooth and nail to make sure it doesn't happen.
Powerful unions have pledged to fight the proposed reform tooth and nail.
Like, I'll fight tooth and nail for a missed credit card payment.
I was fighting tooth and nail to keep him on the team.
Some were resolved with statesmanship and others were fought tooth and nail.
While pretending to abet the hearings, Daugherty fought them tooth and nail.
Pete King (R) are fighting "tooth and nail" to save the deduction.
We have fought much bigger competitors ... We fought Uber tooth and nail.
Even then, the Russian state fights tooth and nail to protect crooks.
"She will fight tooth and nail for women's rights," Ms. McCarthy said.
They're fighting it tooth and nail, and rightfully so, that's their livelihood.
It was this very mentality that the suffragettes fought tooth and nail.
But also his children who had fought the separation tooth and nail.
However, because it's Amelia, she's going to fight that tumor tooth and nail.
"The career people at the IRS will fight tooth and nail," Tiefer said.
Wyoming and Utah are fighting tooth and nail against Obama's Clean Power Plan.
Critics have fought the policy tooth and nail in court, calling it unconstitutional.
From then on he "fought tooth and nail" for help from the Division.
Hedge funds are fighting tooth and nail for every basis point of performance.
Then, of course, the criminal defense bar was fighting me tooth and nail.
As Monday's Electoral College vote approaches, Democrats should be fighting tooth and nail.
Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain our dignity?
He fought the Fox board tooth and nail to make sure it was made.
In fact, Nevada's largest utility, NV Energy, is fighting net metering tooth and nail.
That tooth-and-nail strategy continued into jury selection Thursday, according to the Post.
The Nixon administration fought tooth and nail to prevent the tapes from being released.
Many of his fellow tech titans have been fighting him tooth and nail over it.
"Tooth and nail," Gatlin said of the intensity he plans to mount at the championships.
People were starving, fighting each other tooth and nail for a single loaf of bread.
Will McConnell agree to bring something to the floor conservatives will fight tooth and nail?
Uber, with its massive war chest, can afford to fight tooth-and-nail with regulators.
"He would fight tooth and nail for his vision of the common good," McConnell added.
Fighting tooth and nail for conservative policy change has taken a backseat to bashing Trump.
Proponents of the First Step Act fought tooth and nail to keep this bill clean.
The Trump administration is all but certain to fight against that characterization tooth and nail.
Days before, he had said he would "fight tooth and nail" to keep schools open.
Andrew wants to move to Malibu, but she's fighting tooth and nail to prevent that.
Industry has also fought tooth and nail against efforts to include pricing in said maps.
By the logic of "Ratf**ked," it should have been fighting REDMAP tooth and nail.
"They fought the bill tooth and nail until it was going to pass," he said.
We need leaders who will fight tooth and nail for our land, water, and air.
Yeah, you have to fight tooth and nail to get Wells Fargo to do it.
"You're going to have to compete tooth and nail with countries like China," said RBC's Tran.
Climate hawks won a major victory over industry groups who fought the bill tooth and nail.
DESANTIS: And they fight tooth and nail to provide the American people the truth about activities.
We'll fight tooth and nail to make sure all of these bans meet the same fate.
"The industry will fight any attempt to impose liability absolutely tooth and nail," says Mr Grossman.
Germany and its likeminded northern followers will fight tooth and nail to squash this southern dig.
"People will argue tooth and nail about what it is she stood for," said Stacey Anderson.
The people who call this city home are ready to fight tooth and nail against authoritarianism.
But the Clinton campaign's decision not to fight tooth and nail for Ohio is still notable.
"We're going to fight back tooth and nail every day and twice on Sunday," Priebus said.
Most importantly though, we need to fight tooth and nail for equitable access to recovery supports.
Ever since Democrats rammed Obamacare through Congress, they have fought tooth and nail to protect it.
That would be more productive than fighting tooth and nail over the next big trade deal.
We'll fight tooth and nail to defend net neutrality and keep the web free from censorship.
Democrats have pledged to fight tooth and nail against the wall and stepped-up immigration enforcement.
On many issues, notably health care, Clinton fought tooth and nail to expand the social safety net.
I mean, think about this, Sean, Congress has to fight tooth and nail for every single document.
But he suggested his party had no choice but to fight Mr Gorsuch's nomination tooth and nail.
Republicans called him "a traitor to his class" and fought tooth and nail against the New Deal.
In the first, Lara fought tooth and nail to survive the island on which she was shipwrecked.
Behind the scenes, the Department fights tooth-and-nail to keep bankruptcy gone from federal student loans.
I had to fight tooth and nail to be on a level playing field with my classmates.
She fought tooth and nail, never giving up, to try to force Indiana to recognize her marriage.
In fact, the N.B.A. fought Haywood tooth and nail, as if the league's survival depended on it.
"I will fight this case tooth and nail because I know these charges are rubbish," he added.
Schumer said he is prepared to fight "tooth and nail" should Trump not choose a mainstream nominee.
Democrats must fight tooth and nail on these policies and propose more humane enforcement of immigration laws.
"We were fighting tooth and nail — and he is still stuck in his ways," Mr. Tsibidis said.
I had seen victims and women struggling and fighting tooth and nail — and not getting their words heard.
Farmers in India are fighting tooth and nail to keep a scourge of opium-addicted parrots at bay.
Until that happened, Federal Open Market Committee members were fighting tooth and nail over whether to hike rates.
You would also expect Google to fight tooth and nail to keep its proprietary secret sauce under wraps.
He says he wants to live with his dad, and Madonna had been fighting that tooth and nail.
PBMs fight tooth and nail to prevent anything that might exposure the true origins of their massive profits.
"There are groups out there who will fight this tooth and nail, no matter what," Mr. Balash said.
Yet the Republican Party has been fighting tooth and nail for 40 years to turn our judiciary Republican.
Workers and their union leaders in Marseille, above, are fighting tooth-and-nail to keep a McDonald's open.
Unless she fights the perpetrator tooth and nail, the thinking goes, she must really have wanted the encounter.
They are fighting tooth and nail to not allow our Great Farmers to get what they so richly deserve.
Like Big Tobacco before them, the vaping industry is battling any congressional regulation of their products tooth and nail.
The Department of Education fights tooth and nail behind the scenes to keep bankruptcy gone from federal student loans.
While the FTC's proposal should be an easy lift, the American Optometric Association is fighting it tooth and nail.
The outcome of the next two elections will show whether women are equally determined to fight tooth and nail.
I had to work two other part-time jobs and fight my father tooth and nail to keep it.
Most of us had to fight (and are still fighting) tooth and nail for every inch of our careers.
" Baby Eureka gurgled, "I will fight tooth and nail before I let the top three be from New York!
The Western Shoshone Nation, Native American advocacy groups, and Nevada lawmakers have fought back tooth and nail since then.
They fought us tooth and nail, but at a certain point everybody realized: My daughter could be doing this.
Pharmaceutical companies are also likely to fight tooth and nail against any proposals that would cut into their profits.
It's a blatant example of discrimination and LGBTQ advocates are fighting tooth and nail to gain back their protections.
The United States of America fought tooth and nail against the British empire over a tea tax 250 years ago.
Even when Trump by the way gives the left exactly what they want, they still fight him tooth and nail.
If history is anything to go by, Huawei will fight tooth and nail to protect its business around the world.
The bottom line: Mallinckrodt is fighting tooth and nail to protect Acthar because it is the lifeblood of the company.
While these proposals will be fought tooth and nail, we also need to find new ways to empower struggling families.
And make no mistake: The department fights tooth-and-nail behind the scenes to keep bankruptcy gone from student loans.
And the reputed party of science and environmentalism has fought tooth and nail against it every step of the way.
"You don't pay your opponent when you're fighting them tooth and nail, not if you can avoid it," Cramer said.
"The industry was always its own worst enemy, fighting every reform tooth and nail," said the spokesman, Marc La Vorgna.
This is far from the first time celebrities have fought tooth-and-nail over freaky belongings during a divorce settlement.
That's because, as the Journal notes, all four carriers will likely fight tooth and nail to avoid such heavy penalties.
Those battles are likely to spill into the courts as the companies fight tooth and nail against extensive document requests.
We know Trump is up to that task; he's been fighting the establishment tooth and nail since he launched his campaign.
Other than that, it probably won't come as a surprise that Beto O'Rourke's tooth and nail Texas fight leads the way.
Mills will likely follow through on Maine's Medicaid expansion, which voters approved last year but which LePage fought tooth and nail.
"We will always fight tooth and nail to ensure minimal job losses," Solidarity union media relations officer Francois Redelinghuys told Reuters.
Now, it will spend even more fighting Governor Cuomo tooth-and-nail for the right to advertise short-term rentals.[Reuters]
They are the ones being held hostage, often tortured and starved while their families fight tooth and nail for their release.
"If it's out of the mainstream, yes, we're going to fight that nominee tooth and nail," he told Fox News Sunday.
Rather than give into helplessness, I learned to accept my student loan situation and fight tooth and nail to improve it.
Tom Price for Health and Human Services signaled a "war on seniors" and pledged to "fight tooth and nail" for Medicare.
Then there are the powerful nursing unions, ready to fight tooth and nail to keep aides from encroaching on their turf.
After all, Sanders and Warren, along with their progressive allies, fought tooth-and-nail to protect Obamacare from GOP repeal efforts.
They derive part of their identity and status from being Takoma homeowners and will fight tooth and nail to defend it.
But, he said, they are also prepared to fight him "tooth and nail" on issues like repealing the Affordable Care Act.
A dedicated dog owner fought tooth and nail to protect her dog during a wild mountain lion attack in her backyard.
Heck, what are the odds that the cable companies will fight this tooth and nail (spoiler: it's a lock), and why?
Kraft's team is fighting tooth and nail to block police and prosecutors from releasing the video from the inside the spa.
"We have two entities collecting revenue, and they will fight tooth and nail to make sure these things don't disappear," said Tylek.
"I am going to fight tooth and nail to bring [Labour] back to the values that brought me into it," she promised.
Still, War Dogs was a fun, dynamic island member who will fight tooth and nail to get out of the dog house.
Beggared by the economic crisis, Greece elected the radical left party Syriza that said it would fight the EU tooth-and-nail.
Madonna has fought tooth and nail to keep other items off the auction block, including her underwear and a letter to Tupac.
Make no mistake: The Department of Education fights tooth and nail behind the scenes to keep bankruptcy gone from its cash cow.
Trump will deal with Pelosi and Democrats but, if that is not in the cards, he will fight them tooth and nail.
The FBI has argued the requests must always be kept secret, even fighting tooth-and-nail to keep all NSLs completely secret.
It is easier to predict that employers will continue to "fight tooth and nail" against their employees' attempts to organize, she said.
Make no mistake: The Department of Education fights tooth and nail behind the scenes to keep bankruptcy gone from its cash cow.
Instead of having to claw tooth-and-nail to make it in Los Angeles, they were gifted a gigantic stadium by Inglewood.
In the past six episodes, we've watched women fight tooth and nail for his attention, sending each other home in the process.
"There's a battle for market share, and they're going to have to fight tooth and nail for consumer eyeballs," Mr. Ives said.
The last abortion clinic in the state, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, is fighting tooth and nail to stay open.
"This is now a Republican seat and we will fight tooth and nail to ensure it remains a Republican seat," said Emmer.
Democrats should try "fighting tooth and nail" to connect with workers, not policy wonks, and to protect human beings, not just businesses.
They are demanding total opposition to the President's Cabinet nominees, and turning their fury on Democrats who don't fight Trump tooth and nail.
While many fierce rivals fought tooth and nail to secure the rights, it ended up as the killer app for Nintendo's Game Boy.
Traditionalists, who think of the emperor as something like the soul or essence of Japan, will fight tooth and nail to protect it.
Despite playing a character who fights tooth-and-nail to resist the Dark Side, Daisy Ridley is failing at it in real life.
Women have had to fight tooth and nail for every measure of equality, including many privileges that seem preposterously basic by today's standards.
Although he's been free to ignore most modern technology onstage, behind the scenes Seller has had to fight against it tooth and nail.
Interest groups fight tooth-and-nail to hold onto concessions they've been granted, from tax credits for solar panels to subsidies for ethanol.
Some are not and are fighting tooth and nail against allowing for a more inclusive environment in the Department of Defense at large.
He says that he fought the White House tooth and nail and lost those fights to fill a lot of these empty positions.
The president's legal team made clear this week that it has every intention to fight House Democrats tooth and nail over the issue.
How much motivation do star players have to fight tooth-and-nail against a league that's already taking pretty good care of them?
If, instead, it continues to sacrifice our livelihoods to enrich a few chief executives, we will fight tooth and nail to defeat it.
You can guess which one our pretty, gritty heroine Arlen (played by British model Suki Waterhouse) fights tooth and nail to live in.
But perhaps most importantly, a reimagined corporation would not fight tooth and nail against workers who take collective action or organize into unions.
And to the opposite effect, I've seen some who will fight the Trump administration tooth and nail, against any injustices they may see.
Democrats and environmentalists have fought the review of national monuments tooth and nail, arguing that any reductions in protected areas would be harmful.
Perhaps it was justified in fighting, tooth and nail, the idea that it might be punished by what it considers a rigged system.
"You can rest assured that every one of the app-based employers is going to fight tooth and nail against unionization," he said.
Republicans and many business groups fought the rule tooth and nail, saying it gave the federal government power over wide swaths of land.
Democrats and environmentalists have fought the review of national monuments tooth and nail, arguing that any reductions in protected areas would be harmful.
For the Navajo, Hopi, Ute and Zuni Nations who fought tooth and nail for permanent protection of their ancestral lands, this is life.
Congressional Republicans fought its passage tooth and nail not on its merits, but simply because it was being advanced by a Democratic president.
Some fight tooth-and-nail, while others settle to get the issue out of the courts and, hopefully, out of the news media.
But pro-industry groups, from the toy industry to mobile phone makers, are going to fight tooth and nail to keep regulators at bay.
When many Republican Party senators decided they wanted to do a deal with Barack Obama on immigration, Sessions fought tooth and nail against it.
And environmental groups and the Native American tribes that pushed for the creation of these monuments have vowed to fight it tooth and nail.
In San Francisco, wealthy residents have fought tooth-and-nail against an innovative "navigation center" that would temporarily shelter homeless people and their pets.
She is currently fighting tooth and nail to get the sentence overturned and to have the 27-year-old released as soon as possible.
Well, appreciate what you can get because it sounds like HBO is, as expected, fighting tooth and nail to prevent any unintentional photo leaks.
"On most areas, we're going to have to fight him, and we'll fight him tooth and nail," he told NBC's "Today" on Inauguration Day.
Richardson's Pamela fought tooth and nail to withhold her body from Mr B. By contrast, her modern counterpart invites the man to abuse her.
This time the Republicans are going to the mat to fight the president tooth and nail, but next time it will be the Democrats.
Other candidates are stuck fighting tooth and nail to register at just one or two percent in order to qualify for the debate stage.
Those who are deported from their lives and families will fight tooth and nail to come back, despite stiff penalties for unlawful re-entry.
The project still faces strong opposition, with a group of high-profile Australians recently saying they will "fight tooth and nail" against Adani's plans.
On a superficial level, the movie is a tawdry tale of marital discord in which Mojdeh and Morteza go at it tooth and nail.
At the same time, the telecom sector has fought tooth and nail against the passage of federal privacy rules of any kind, Sohn said.
Quickly, governors around the country were left with a choice: embrace the law by expanding Medicaid and implementing healthcare exchanges, or fight tooth-and-nail.
In the U.S., early-stage investments fight tooth and nail to get in on promising startups, and invest sizable resources trying to locate promising investments.
And because sustaining innovations target an industry's more profitable consumers, we can expect leading automakers to fight tooth and nail to retain their core customers.
But while groups like the American Medical Association have championed these new regulations, restaurants like Popeyes, KFC, and McDonald's are fighting them tooth and nail.
The 340B drug change and knee surgery policies would be big shifts in policy — and will be fought tooth and nail by the hospital industry.
Republicans fought the effort tooth and nail and voter opposition to Obamacare helped carry the party to impressive wins in 2010, 2014, and last year.
Democratic leaders on Wednesday vowed to fight "tooth and nail" against any Republican push to change Medicare so that it relies more on private insurers.
"We've seen influential Thai fishing fleet owners fight tooth and nail against this convention from the start," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
Elizabeth and so many others fought tooth and nail for those gains, blazing a trail that each of us has tried to follow and expand.
Still, as a parade of lawyers approached the podium to make their cases, it was clear creditors are fighting tooth and nail for their interests.
Nevertheless, there will be a long line of candidates — men and women — who will be fighting tooth and nail to get the Uber CEO job.
And locals fought tooth and nail to sustain a vital Main Street as the town's heart despite pressure from stores like Walmart and Family Dollar.
My doctors agreed, but my friends and the college wanted me to take time off and I had to fight tooth and nail to return.
For nearly three years, Republicans and Democrats have fought tooth and nail over the deeds and demeanor of the mercurial figure in the Oval Office.
Jordan said he does not know why they have had to fight tooth and nail to get the documents while Sessions is leading the agency.
Conservatives fought President Obama tooth and nail to dismantle the Export-Import Bank, and have been largely successful in keeping the bank's corporate welfare inactive.
Under the well-known practice that economists call "rent-seeking," those who enjoy government subsidies will fight tooth and nail to keep them in place.
"The city has been fighting us tooth and nail on getting the video out," said Mark Smolens, one of the lawyers for the Chatman family.
We do not know how much longer we will be here, but we are ready to fight tooth and nail for what is ours by right.
In a world where we fight tooth and nail to preserve a communications platform that limits its users to 140 characters, nuance is a rare commodity.
Jim Cramer says some analysts don't seem to believe in the Trump rally, and are fighting it tooth and nail — especially when it comes to Apple.
Christie's pitch: He's a Republican governor in a Democrat-dominated state who has fought tooth and nail with an unfriendly legislature to move conservative priorities forward.
The medication is covered by my insurance, and I had to fight tooth and nail to get approved for the treatment because it's so incredibly expensive.
Even so, Uber—which has been valued at upwards of $50 billion—has fought tooth and nail to prevent drivers from seeking these perks through unionization.
"We are in India to tell Adani that Australians do not want this coal mine and will continue to fight it tooth and nail," said Cousins.
Rather than fighting tooth and nail to find the "correct" solution, sometimes it's worth asking what the problem arises from — and then just stop doing that.
" But he didn't actually come out as asexual then, a personal revelation he avoided tooth and nail until his late 20s, preferring the safety of "nothing.
The president and his White House are going to fight this tooth and nail, but in the end "someone is probably going to go to jail."
Those companies are fighting the measure "tooth and nail," as Eli Lilly & Co. CEO John Lechleiter put it on a quarterly financial call the other week.
But exemptions from DMCA's overly broad and widely abused copyright restrictions have been only on a case-by-case basis, and resisted tooth and nail by manufacturers.
This is politically unfeasible in the short term — Americans are averse to more taxes, and the meat industry would likely fight any meat tax tooth and nail.
Instead, WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal have fought tooth and nail to get important series like The West Wing, Friends, and The Office on their own upcoming streaming services.
"I knew I was going to fight this tooth and nail but the affect on my kids was really hard for me to get past," she says.
After all, each of these women fought tooth and nail to get a spot on this team — months before, a teammate could have been seen as competition.
In all, it was a jubilant evening for Clinton and her campaign after spending months fighting tooth-and-nail to keep in check Sanders' insurgency in check.
Many in the sport have fought tooth and nail for decades to mobilize a worldwide effort to get golf back into the Games, Player said in April.
We're told his people are going to fight this tooth and nail, and it appears the big issue is whether 21 has been convicted of a felony.
"Governor McCrory is both a model of what is wrong with today's Republican Party and the rigged system they're fighting tooth and nail to uphold," Perez said.
This week's column is a little different than the previous frozen food columns I've written because I fought tooth and nail to not have to do it.
In the Department of Education's case, that included Trump's pledges to hand over control to the states and to fight tooth and nail against Common Core standards.
" If she makes it to the Oval Office, Warren added, she will "fight tooth and nail … to ban discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in employment, housing, and healthcare.
Let's be smart about that cost, because it's a big part of why Apple is fighting tooth and nail to protect its users in the first place.
Policies aimed at reining in carbon emissions and combating climate change would generally be bad for the Kochs, so they fought any such proposal tooth and nail.
Their gripes were poor working conditions and firings after some had tried to unionise—something that in America Fuyao fought tooth and nail, and successfully, to block.
As tech companies in Silicon Valley fight tooth and nail to lure and retain talent, many distinguish themselves by the uniqueness of their perks and company culture.
As the competition for Amazon's HQ2000 project moves to a second phase, New York and New Jersey are battling tooth-and-nail to sway the company's decision.
For decades, Hollywood has fought tooth and nail against any disruption to the gap between a movie's release in theaters—and its availability on streaming and DVD.
Ojeda fought tooth and nail against Republican Carol Miller for the seat vacated by incumbent Evan Jenkins, who won a seat on the state's Supreme Court of Appeals.
And look no further than the 2015 Pan Am Games for a reminder of this as we fought tooth and nail against West performing at our closing ceremonies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger fought tooth and nail and Sinbad to get his son a Turbo Man doll, and all you have to do is shell out your rent money.
That said, while AT&T has fought tooth and nail to save this deal, one industry analyst argued that losing Time Warner might be good for AT&T.
There's losses that make a team dig in further and fight tooth-and-nail to comeback, and there's losses that make you realize it's simply not your year.
The bottled water industry, led by the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), fought the policy tooth-and-nail, arguing that it deprived parkgoers of a healthy drink option.
"Donald Trump can say his path to victory runs through Pennsylvania, but we're going to fight him tooth and nail," said Preston Maddock, the state Democratic Party spokesman.
The industry&aposs largest companies have fought tooth and nail against Airbnb as the startup continues to have a higher valuation than Hilton, Hyatt, and other major hotels.
Yet when a fellow soldier called me "Private Ching Chong" I had to fight tooth and nail to even convince my superiors that this was a racist comment.
Last Saturday, in the main event of UFC 202, McGregor evened the score with Diaz stealing a majority decision in a tooth-and-nail war for the ages.
A group of workers and their union leaders in Marseille are fighting tooth-and-nail to save a McDonald's from closing in a working-class, largely immigrant neighborhood.
In another contrast with Greitens, who fought tooth and nail with the Republican-led legislature over legislative priorities, Parson is expected to leverage his relationships with legislative leaders.
Trump is a failed businessman, born with a silver spoon, who has fought tooth and nail to hide whatever tarnish he imagines might be revealed in his finances.
For 70 years, the first-wavers would march, lecture, and protest, and face arrest, ridicule, and violence as they fought tooth and nail for the right to vote.
It was a populist message that resonated strongly with voters, giving the dark horse candidate a boost among concerned progressives and independents during a tooth and nail primary battle.
Democrats are fighting tooth and nail for the majority this year, and Love has a Nancy Pelosi–anointed Democratic opponent in Ben McAdams, the mayor of Salt Lake County.
" Conyers' attorney, Arnold Reed, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the lawmaker has no plans to leave Congress and will fight the accusations against him "tooth and nail.
While more than a dozen states have now proposed right to repair laws, numerous companies, eager to keep repair monopolies intact, have fought tooth and nail against the proposals.
As the reality of Trump's victory sank in, the task of rallying the base and fighting tooth and nail for any inch of ground remaining fell upon Congressional Democrats.
The 27-year-old, who grew up in the small California town of Red Bluff, worked tooth and nail to get to her current spot in New York City.
"Republicans continue to fight these commonsense conservation efforts tooth and nail in the name of making things a little bit easier for Big Oil," Grijalva said in a statement.
They were able to have a life-changing outcome that, had they gone the conventional route, they probably would have had to fight tooth and nail to make happy.
An offshore and inshore racing series sprung from these inspirations and the ORMA 60 trimaran class of fully-sponsored racers fought tooth-and-nail around France throughout the 1990s.
The financial industry has fought the rule-making effort tooth and nail, warning policymakers the rule would be unworkable and could kill off a raft of investment advice opportunities.
In a surprise to no one, some banks and credit card companies are fighting tooth and nail against the idea because of the potential threat to their own profits.
Adam Schiff of California have fought tooth and nail to convince the Republican-led chamber to vote to hear from key witnesses who did not testify in the House.
Finally, Bolton fought tooth and nail against the disastrous agreement that Trump came close to striking with the Taliban at a surprise Camp David summit planned for last weekend.
Yet in a country where the party in power fights tooth and nail against expanding regular health care benefits, what chance do we have of publicly funded dental care?
"The alternative to Trump being sworn in as the nation's 45th president is frightening," Adelson wrote, adding, "Republicans have fought tooth and nail against President Obama" and his agenda.
They fight with literal tooth and nail, but also through less overt means like infiltration and exfiltration, espionage and sabotage and an oddly intimate form of psychological monkey-wrenching.
Photographer Chaim joined the intense fight for the town of Sousa in late October, a period when the SDF fought tooth and nail to take its streets from ISIS.
No matter whether on the right or left, their ideal representative is someone who will always vote their party's line and always fight the other party tooth-and-nail.
At heart, the thrill of the action in "Outlander" has been watching Claire and Jamie fight tooth and nail for change in the face of things that seemed inevitable.
"Trump will go to the N.R.A. and be like, 'I'm your greatest friend,' but unfortunately his D.O.J. has fought gun cases tooth and nail in the courts," he said.
Even so, Canadian insurers, who already require detailed health data from their policyholders, are fighting tooth and nail for the right to demand this information from people seeking insurance.
After fighting tooth and nail to get a parking spot on East 6th ($2.50), we end up eating way too much food and feel the comas coming on immediately ($78.61).
Silicon Valley is going to fight tooth and nail to stop government from interfering with the algorithm, which is supposed to be this neutral, all-powerful god with the platform.
Its success reiterates the activist belief that if net neutrality can't be saved on the federal level, the fight will have to be fought tooth and nail, state by state.
"[DNC Chairman] Tom Perez fought tooth and nail to ensure our nominee would be chosen by pledged delegates, not automatic delegates," David Bergstein, a DNC spokesman, said in an email.
But the industry has fought tooth and nail against it, arguing it would simply limit investments choices for many Americans, while imposing a burdensome new rule on the financial sector.
Legitimate claims of disabling injury and persistent conditions such as black lung are now fought tooth and nail by the coal barons, the most powerful political force in the state.
David Crompton, chief constable of the SYP, was suspended on April 27th following accusations that the police force had fought "tooth and nail to avoid adverse findings by the jury".
It fell six votes short after the White House fought it tooth and nail, leaving the fate of the Dreamers as uncertain as the Senate's ability to get things done.
"They were fighting tooth-and-nail for the interests of their donors," said Michael Gianaris, deputy majority leader in the Senate, who came to prominence pushing the campaign against Amazon.
No doubt, Republicans fought tooth and nail to defend President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, as Democrats later fought to defend President Clinton during his impeachment in the Lewinsky affair.
Industry lobbyists have fought against the efforts tooth and nail, per the New York Times, as both big and small players in the business are heavily reliant on flavored products.
Now Sanders and Biden will likely battle tooth-and-nail over the next several weeks to determine which ideological course the party takes in the run-up to the Nov.
That's a choice that American conservatives have fought against, tooth and nail, with the help of predatory tax services companies like H&R Block and Intuit (the makers of TurboTax).
So though they hadn't been expecting a Trump win, insurance companies made a tactical decision after the election to engage with Republicans rather than fight tooth and nail to keep Obamacare.
It was an extraordinary climb down for companies that had campaigned tooth-and-nail for six years for better terms, and the president signed the bill into law two days later.
Groceries are what propelled Walmart to its mega-status in the first place, so it has a huge interest in fighting tooth and nail to keep that dominance from Amazon's clutches.
Where Rumble was choked out by Cormier, Gustafsson fought him, tooth-and-nail, for five frenzied rounds, ultimately losing a split decision that many fans believe should have gone his way.
The story has largely moved on to the confines of courtrooms, with some of the parents indicted choosing to plead guilty and others promising to fight the case tooth and nail.
It continues to make a profit on defaulted loans as before, however, and also continues to fight tooth and nail, behind the scenes, to keep bankruptcy protections gone from student loans.
Alphabet can face a multi-billion dollar fine from the Europeans for antitrust, while also fighting a tooth-and-nail war with ISPs like Verizon and AT&T over net neutrality.
That's why we must fight tooth and nail to demand our elected official ensure that everyone in our country has access to safe, affordable, locally controlled water service and wastewater disposal.
Tobacco companies "will certainly fight tooth and nail to stop this product standard from going into place," said Mike Zercher, president of 22nd Century, the maker of Moonlight said in interview.
"Contrary to what the pundits will tell you, this is an R+1 district and we will fight tooth and nail to ensure it remains in Republican hands in 2020," Rep.
But it is these individual regimes — fought for tooth-and-nail over the years by the different working groups, and jealously guarded as embodying rights, not privileges — that are at issue.
To the surprise of no one, the NRA fought tooth and nail against the assault weapons ban, promising to exact "retaliation" from any member of Congress who dared to support it.
After her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported to Mexico, Elizabeth Perez, a Marine veteran living in Ohio, fights tooth and nail to reunite him with their children in the United States.
All of them have a lot to lose if the project fails, and they will fight tooth and nail to protect Lockheed Martin no matter how poorly the project is going.
This is partly because we're talking about her new movie, Antibirth, and partly because Lyonne, 37, has fought tooth-and-nail to get to the place of relative calm she's at now.
"I don't think we'll ever really go back to that mindset," Robins said, referring to the early days when the companies fought tooth and nail over users, team deals and venture capital.
You know Bob McCulloch, the district attorney of St. Louis, who I loathe, who I fought tooth and nail to ensure nothing like this could happen in Ferguson, is a lifelong Democrat.
Major local employers fought tooth and nail to reverse what would have been a meager $0003 fee for each worker—or "head"—employed by companies with at least $20 million in revenue.
So that's what America has to look forward to in 2018 in Congress: a tooth-and-nail battle to resolve issues that should have been resolved last year, and not much else.
Last year, when admitting staff tried to keep her pediatric patient from going into surgery because the family had no insurance, Sandy fought tooth and nail until that child finished the surgery.
They are currently fighting tooth and nail to keep the Taxpayers Before Insurers Act, sponsored by Representative Walker and Senators Rubio and Sasse, from restoring the $5 billion owed to the Treasury.
Apple has made it clear that it will fight tooth and nail the government's effort to get lawful access, and will implement as many technical measures as necessary to limit such access.
And you can expect tech giants to fight tooth and nail against laws being drafted and passed — as indeed Facebook, Google and others lobbied fiercely to try to get GDPR watered down.
Google fought tooth and nail to take back every penny paid to Anthony for his multibillion dollar contributions and now Uber is refusing to indemnify Anthony despite explicitly agreeing to do so.
The Photograph and its versatile cast are a timely reminder in an industry where Black entertainers are still fighting tooth and nail for opportunities and recognition that Black actors have the range.
In fact, experts said, that a once-mighty labor union is fighting tooth and nail to save generous health plans speaks to the economic precarity most Americans have grown to numbly accept.
"The big banks fight tooth and nail, and prolong and delay — whatever it takes to wear people down," said David P. McGuinn, the founder of Safe Deposit Specialists, an industry consulting firm.
"The big banks fight tooth and nail, and prolong and delay — whatever it takes to wear people down," said David P. McGuinn, the founder of Safe Deposit Specialists, an industry consulting firm.
It's no surprise that the Senate confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit last week Judge Andrew Brasher, who has fought tooth and nail against voting rights, one of the things authoritarians fear most.
Because, believe me, I have had many conversations with Trump supporters, and you can pull out any one incident and they'll fight you tooth and nail on each incident, no matter how egregious.
What the report ignores is that the CRTC stepped in because the private sector that Katz and his colleagues believe can provide better value for customers fought tooth and nail against these packages.
While we don't know much about how exactly that malware works—the agency has fought tooth and nail to keep every little detail under wraps—it definitely interfered with a computer's normal functioning.
If you're facing someone like a Chris Christie, you can show him all the facts and figures you want—he's entrenched in his position and he's going to fight you tooth and nail.
Yet while Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom and Australian Cate Campbell battled tooth and nail from the middle lanes, the American stormed home under the radar to grab the gold in a personal best 52.04.
NordLB analyst Frank Schwope, who rates Skoda shares a "hold", said that the carmaker would have to fight tooth and nail in the United States, citing the country's saturated market for passenger cars.
Mr. Trump, make no mistake, this "wise Latina" and millions more are going to fight your confirmation of Senator Sessions and any other racist politicians that you try to appoint, tooth and nail.
Sitting on the divisional throne is Dominick Cruz who, earlier this year, returned from an ridiculous stretch of injuries to reclaim the title with a tooth-and-nail decision defeat of TJ Dillashaw.
He has stepped up his criticism of Democrats in recent weeks, warning Mr. Nadler that he is prepared to fight tooth and nail if the Democrat oversteps in his pursuit of Mr. Trump.
Uber and Lyft aren't getting muchBut they did praise language in the bill that offers assistance to the gig workers they've fought tooth-and-nail to not recognize (and pay for) as employees.
New Mobility, which houses Uber&aposs bike and scooter efforts, has raised prices and abandoned some cities in recent months as the ride-hailing giant fights tooth-and-nail to turn a profit.
And yet, the Republican Party he now leads is fighting tooth and nail to keep an ardent Trump ally from running for the Senate against a relatively new convert to the President's cause.
Let's tackle each of these individually, but let's do so under the umbrella of this ultimatum that I believe the liberal base is sending to the Democratic Party: Fight this, tooth and nail.
Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.
The company fought tooth and nail against the 2015 rules while they were being prepared, fought them while they were in force and fought for their rollback and replacement with the new, weaker ones.
Or do they fuel his narrative, and that of his supporters, of an embattled insurgent fighting tooth and nail to challenge powerful political actors who are willing to do anything necessary to stop him?
But surgeons fought tooth and nail to keep their programs alive, says Dr. Martin Elliott, a cardiac surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London who's written extensively about the closures.
Yes, the very same Mark Wahlberg-faced behemoth that battled tooth-and-nail against the 2015 FCC decision to classify ISPs as common carriers wants you to know that it's totally on your side.
The company has fought the law tooth and nail, but city authorities say it's basically common sense for the local government to be informed of the number and nature of residents using the service.
I fought tooth and nail, and several models-worth, to own a small fallen, industrial stock called Harsco, because I believed the resumption of overseas manufacturing and construction, in 2015, would revitalize its business.
Forced motherhood is the epitome of class warfare, and we have no choice but to fight tooth and nail for control over our reproductive lives if we want to put an end to it.
"You mentioned the $15 minimum wage, that is something that Governor Cuomo fought and fought and fought tooth and nail until the unions backed him into a corner and he finally flipped," Nixon said.
The financial industry has fought tooth and nail against the regulations, arguing they will impose a massive burden on financial firms and make it harder for less wealthy Americans to obtain expert financial advice.
We're pretty sure, however, that the 2 percent milk and whole-wheat bread you fought your neighbors for, tooth and nail, is not going to mean the difference between life and death this weekend.
The Amazon Echo, Google's Home and the smart home hub Apple has been preparing are good examples of how big companies are fighting tooth and nail to secure a place on your counter top.
The oil and gas industry is fighting the new regulations tooth and nail, complaining that they add unnecessary costs to their operations and that they are already dramatically reducing methane pollution without new regulations.
But American unity has defined the party for decades through Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, affordable health insurance, affordable higher education and reasoned immigration policy — all, by the way, fought tooth and nail by Republicans.
It's about the rural town's attempts to open a 25-bed hospital to serve its residents, and about how the hospital in wealthy Naples, 40 miles away, has fought that effort tooth and nail.
Adam Schiff of California, had fought tooth and nail over the past week to persuade moderate Republicans to join them in admitting new evidence from key witnesses who did not testify in the House.
Similarly, the Department of Education has been fighting tooth-and-nail behind the scenes to keep bankruptcy protections gone from student loans, particularly since they took the lending system over under Obama in 2010.
Well fight tooth and nail to make sure it doesnt happen, said Clare Lakewood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that had sued the BLM in 2013.
The bad news is that powerful political actors—including the Democratic Party elite that just so happens to be quite well-versed in the rhetoric of diversity—are fighting such reforms tooth and nail.
It's likely the governor and his attorneys will fight this tooth and nail, especially with the legal questions about whether they can impeach a sitting governor for allegations of crimes committed before taking office.
For instance, carbon neutrality will require a great deal of the oil industry, which fought Brown tooth and nail for years, and of the NIMBYs that helped defeat SB 827, the urban density bill.
"I'm somebody that, you know, I'll fight tooth and nail to make something succeed, but the moment I realize it's not going to succeed, the next day I would have forgotten about it," he says.
"Tonight, we are taking to the floor and social media to denounce this plan and warn the American people that the Democrats will be fighting tooth and nail against this potentially catastrophic move," Schumer said.
"Tonight, we are taking to the floor and social media to denounce the plan and warn the American people that the Democrats will be fighting tooth and nail against this potentially catastrophic move," he said.
"I was very upset that there was not a policy in place that would protect me, and I fought tooth and nail to make sure that this would not happen to other women," Montaño says.
"Too many Americans are fighting tooth and nail to keep a roof over their heads as our nation continues to face a housing affordability and homelessness crisis," Harris said in a statement announcing the bill.
Mr. Kraft's lawyers are likely to fight tooth and nail to ensure that the video never becomes public, opening yet another front in a litigation that under normal circumstances would involve little effort or expense.
There are entire scenes, particularly near the end, where characters who should be fighting tooth and nail for what they want instead stand still and calmly reflect on what they each want to do next.
Each year the Television Academy hands out dozens of shiny awards, and in the months leading up to the event, actors, directors and production companies fight tooth and nail to win these little golden statues.
"Tonight, we are taking to the floor and social media to denounce this plan and warn the American people that the Democrats will be fighting tooth and nail against this potentially catastrophic move," he said.
"When he takes a divisive, nasty turn, when he just sides with special interests and gets co-opted by the Republican right, we will oppose him tooth and nail," Mr. Schumer said in an interview.
Yet, as Democrats continue to come to terms with their anger and denial, it is now clear what their response to defeat will be: to fight Republicans "tooth and nail" every step of the way.
Facing the most egregious rape of Western lands since the Glen Canyon Dam bisected the swift-flowing Colorado River, environmental crusaders are already fighting tooth-and-nail to preserve Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante.
Things got worse when I became an art professor, a woman professor in a milieu dominated by men who were ready to fight tooth and nail to maintain their art school version of Animal House.
Together, these programs seem to hint at a broad (if quiet) consensus that the F-35 can fight air-to-air, but it's nowhere near its best when fighting tooth and nail in a dogfight.
He met his wife, who is Irish, online — an encounter he deems ironic given that her profile photo was likely stored in the kind of data center he is now fighting tooth-and-nail to block.
"After years of selling voting equipment that it knew was insecure, and fighting tooth and nail against real election security, ES&S is finally admitting that paper ballots are the most secure system currently available," Sen.
As California has attempted to shore up public safety requirements, giants like Comcast and AT&T have fought tooth and nail to derail those efforts as they try to eliminate state and federal oversight of telecom.
The Chamber has spent $6900 million on elections since 2628 and almost $28503 billion on lobbying since 22019, and is fighting tooth and nail to preserve its ability to continue flooding our democracy with secret money.
As the tooth-and-nail fight intensifies over a market that one research firm predicted could be worth $10 billion by 2020, the question is how much of a trash trail will the industry leave behind?
As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has fought tooth and nail against allowing the lower chamber to conduct a full-throated Watergate-style investigation into what kind of interference occurred in the 2016 election.
CBS News, for example, reported on Republicans pretending to agree with Democrats about preexisting conditions regulations as if the GOP had a change of heart; they have in fact spent years fighting these tooth and nail.
"My father needs a fighter by his side in Wyoming, someone who is committed to enacting his America First agenda and I know that Foster will fight tooth and nail to help make that a reality."
Of course, my sense is you need to fight them tooth-and-nail on this, and we need to make the case to the American people that you have to put us back into the majority.
And you didn't have to fight tooth and nail for it, like we did for HERO [the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance], and sit through 30-plus hours of hearings while having hateful crap spewed at you.
I refer to the decision of Senate Democrats to wage a tooth-and-nail battle to oppose Kavanaugh, an effort that is likely doomed to fail and equally likely to hurt Democratic chances in the fall.
It is why many residents of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, where dozens drowned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, fought tooth and nail to stay put, notwithstanding that the neighborhood is a giant bathtub.
Photo: GettyIt's becoming clear that online companies can do some of the hard things they've fought against tooth and nail—they just have to be forced to do it, although they apparently won't prepare ahead of time.
Brash conservative Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti told VICE News he will fight the safe injection sites "tooth and nail" and thinks the service should only be done in "hospital settings," rather than in clinics open to the public.
Republicans fought tooth and nail to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in spite of serious allegations of sexual misconduct in his past (which he denies) and questions of his character and truthfulness under oath.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Northrop Grumman are fighting tooth and nail for the privilege of sending spy satellites and other national security payloads to orbit for the U.S. military through the mid-2020s.
Dany was denied her throne, and has fought tooth and nail to be able to claim it: Jon never asked for any of this, and has fought his own instincts by accepting the duty placed on him.
This version includes a far more diverse cast and New York vistas sprinkled in between the original Iowa scenes—as though Sanders is fighting tooth and nail to combat the idea that his supporters are monolithically white.
In the meantime, O'Meara said activists are fighting tooth and nail for change, hoping to educate the public about the importance of vaccinating, spaying or neutering strays and ultimately instilling a stronger adoption culture within the country.
At the news conference, she plans to offer an update on the recounts as part of her effort to "fight tooth and nail to verify the accuracy, security, and fairness of the vote," according a Facebook event.
If they want to fight it tooth-and-nail, and they have legal standing to do so—along with the necessary massive war chest to afford legal fees and the missing rent—then they'll go to war.
In return, Democrats, and some Republicans fight tooth and nail to protect teachers from competition of any kind, locking families into a system that has routinely failed to educate children or in some locations keep them safe.
Read more: Uber and Lyft are fighting tooth and nail against a California bill that could make some drivers employees and bankrupt both companiesKamala Harris, whose brother-in-law serves as Uber's chief counsel, supports AB5, Sen.
On the flip side, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — the huge corporate lobbying group funded by Wall Street banks and payday lenders — has fought tooth-and-nail to oppose any CFPB action to rein in ripoff clauses.
The Republicans fight tooth and nail for policies like tax cuts for the rich (which are supposed to be the solution to every problem) or balanced budgets (which they worry about only when Democrats are in power).
But I am here to guarantee that if JaCogLaw is instructed, we will fight tooth and nail to make sure that man has a right to a fair trial and gets the best representation they can afford.
None of this was proved during a trial in Manhattan last year — partly because the Trump administration fought tooth and nail to prevent a deposition of Mr. Ross, an effort the Supreme Court agreed with last October.
The company has fought tooth and nail to keep its drivers designated as independent contractors, a cost-saving measure that helps Uber avoid paying out potentially expensive benefits — like retirement plans — and other potential protections to drivers.
Peruvians say Chile "stole" pisco along with the territory it gained when it won the border conflict, and the countries have been fighting tooth and nail to be the one true birthplace of the brandy ever since.
"I have to be there for another month but you can be sure I will fight tooth and nail to move Insatiable to a state that will protect our rights," Milano told BuzzFeed News in a previous interview.
Or perhaps you've fought tooth and nail to get them to get rid of that one piece of clothing you hate or have bought them a few new replacement pieces as gifts just to get the point across.
Chris Carter was a huge defender of Gillian Anderson via GIPHY Anderson told the Chicago Tribune that Carter fought "tooth and nail" to get her cast as Scully, and lobbied against having her replaced when she got pregnant.
It's been common practice for the corporate players who profit off chemical agents to fight tooth and nail for their continued use even as study after study builds a case of sometimes devastating environmental and human health costs.
Dynamics of the race But, for all the passion and raised voices, it seemed unlikely that either Clinton or Sanders changed the dynamic of their race, which has them fighting tooth and nail in the first two states.
Rather than fighting tooth and nail to find the "correct" solution to the problem in front of you, sometimes it's worth the risk of looking foolish to ask: Why are we even trying to solve this problem, anyway?
On drug pricing, the president has aligned himself with Democrats, who have long argued that the government should be allowed to bargain for lower drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid, a position fought tooth and nail by Republicans.
Although the surprise billing debate is often framed as a battle between insurers and doctors, hospitals also have a huge financial stake in the issue and are fighting tooth and nail to make sure they get their way.
So I can only imagine that other federations are going to make it happen, but knowing Sunil [Gulati, president of the United States Soccer Federation] and knowing the U.S. Soccer Federation, they're going to fight it tooth and nail.
The very fact that German bishops insist they see some value in same-sex partnerships (so long as they are not described as marriage) might be surprising to an American who is accustomed to tooth-and-nail culture wars.
Helsinki co-Chair Marta Pardavi says she expects to file many more cases on behalf of migrants who are in similar positions, which could generate a systemic intervention by Strasbourg and a tooth-and-nail fight with the government.
The change will be fought tooth and nail by retailers and other firms with large import expenses, but it will raise significant revenue, allow a big headline corporate tax cut, and adjust the tax code to support U.S. employment.
"We fought tooth and nail against the administration, and with the support of Speaker Pelosi, Senator Wyden, and the union movement, we secured significant improvements for workers that President Trump's initial agreement left out, namely stronger enforcement," Brown added.
The government attorney heard countless hours of my testimony explaining why I cannot go back to my country, yet he appealed the immigration judge's decision and is fighting tooth and nail to keep me detained in a cold cell.
To me, it was always uncharted waters where we were going up against a very powerful political establishment that was going to fight tooth and nail to suppress the truth and maintain their lack of transparency and their lack of accountability.
"It's definitely a sign that things are going to be heated and that they are going to fight tooth and nail," said Kazarian, who expects the defense attorneys to use "every tool in their bag," even personally attacking the prosecution.
One is through the formation of grassroots movements that grow powerful enough to impose political pressure on a strong contingency of congressional Democratic lawmakers who don't get significant donations from energy companies, and who are willing to fight tooth-and-nail.
I'll admit, it's weird watching a driver — especially one who's spent 25 minutes fighting tooth and nail for the lead of the race — pull into the pits, hop out of a car, hop into another one, and take off again.
But while Thandi is coming of age, Margot is fighting tooth and nail to be named the general manager of an island resort — and she really will do anything to get what she wants when it comes to money and power.
By the late '70s and early '80s, the women of rock (and the women of pop, who took the aesthetic of being a rock star into that genre) had fought tooth and nail for every bit of autonomy they claimed.
What's next: If this idea picks up steam again in Congress, expect Big Tech — including any site that hosts user comments and reviews, user-written ads, or videos and photos — to fight tooth and nail to keep its Section 230 immunity.
The ruling, which AT&T fought tooth and nail, was far more significant than it seemed at the time, as it made it possible for third-party companies to offer long-distance service, something MCI first offered the in 1970.
That development, coming on Wednesday nearly 15 months after Tamir's death, stirred up fresh outrage -- not just from his family, but from the Cleveland police union that has fought them tooth and nail to clear the officers involved in the shooting.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.
Anti-abortion groups like the Susan B. Anthony List and the Pro-Life Action League are waging an all-out campaign to support his confirmation, while abortion-rights groups are fighting tooth and nail to keep him off the court.
The cables also said Gayoom was committed to introducing democratic reforms but was being held back by "hardliners" like Yameen, "who realize they would lose everything if Gayoom lost power and thus were fighting the reform process tooth and nail".
The establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was meant to address this turn of events, but even as Republicans fought tooth and nail against its creation, the idea of a new expert regulatory agency never really captured the public imagination.
New York's first European settlers were scouts for the Dutch East India Company, and the British fought tooth and nail to keep it during the American Revolution because of its attractiveness as a major port and place to do businesses.
Stone and Parker were ready to fight tooth and nail for every curse word, sex act, and decapitation in their movie, producing this legendary memo in which they gleefully denoted the particular sex acts that they felt most passionate about including.
The union representing the 4,700 striking workers vowed to fight the petition for a back-to-work order "tooth and nail," calling the agency's action a "pointless" legal maneuver that would only distract from talks aimed at settling the dispute.
Customer control over their own electricity fundamentally undermines the outdated business model of the centralized, monopoly utility, and unfortunately many of those utilities are responding by fighting rooftop solar tooth and nail rather than striving to meet changing customer demand.
The bill is sure to change—for better and for worse—and is just one part of a tooth and nail battle to bring something vaguely resembling accountability to companies that spent decades treating consumer privacy as a distant afterthought.
That would give them a simple majority of 51 votes, which would be enough to compel witnesses to testify, demand certain documents and pursue other trial proceedings Democrats want (and Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail to withhold).  0003.
"Massive online mobilization got us the strong net neutrality protections that we have now, and we intend to fight tooth and nail to defend them," Evan Greer, campaign director for the group Fight for the Future, said in a statement.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - While Mexican government negotiators fought tooth and nail to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of Mexican farmers and workers took to the streets on Wednesday demanding the deal be scrapped.
And now, faced with a clear statute mandating that the IRS turn over requested tax returns to Congress so that perhaps we can all see what's really been going on, our President is fighting the black letter law tooth and nail.
"Google fought tooth and nail to take back every penny paid to Anthony for his multibillion-dollar contributions and now Uber is refusing to indemnify Anthony despite explicitly agreeing to do so," wrote Neel Chatterjee, Levandowski's lawyer, to the Journal.
"Time will tell if the opposition are serious [about impeaching Hwang] or if this just is a token maneuver to show the public they are committed to fighting the administration tooth and nail, " said Steven Ward, assistant professor at Gwangju-based Chosun University.
While we do not know what House investigators will uncover, we do know that Trump will fight tooth and nail to defend himself, Republicans in Congress will likely remain steadfast behind him, and Republican voters will most certainly remain unimpressed with it all.
Moreover, chaebols will fight tooth-and-nail against any restrictive policies so the next President may choose to side-step a public confrontation by reviving talk of prosecutorial reform instead, an area where they stand a better chance of success, Ward continued.
In the wake of one of the many failed mobile operating systems to appear on the scene in the last decade, Jolla has fought tooth and nail to carve out a niche in the totalizing mobile duopoly ran by Apple and Google.
Like many critics, Brill points to Do Not Track, the failed system meant to allow consumers to opt-out of invasive tracking by flagging their browsers, which the ad industry fought tooth-and-nail and eventually killed by ignoring the flags outright.
The Mexican perspective: "While Mexican government negotiators fought tooth and nail to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of Mexican farmers and workers took to the streets on Wednesday demanding the deal be scrapped," per Reuters.
As you might expect, the cable industry is fighting this idea tooth and nail — they've set up an entire new industry lobbying group called the Future of TV Coalition that's running some super scary ads about the FCC, um, killing diversity or something.
A field of more than 20 candidates following their egos, fighting tooth and nail for every vote in the primary, is going to leave voters exhausted and distrustful and the nominee depleted and vulnerable going into a general election against a sitting president.
"I've personally had to fight tooth and nail to humanize my daughter, as a person and a member of a community that wasn't in the elite area," says Harris, whose daughter Unique was 24 years old when she disappeared from her DC home.
It's fitting that October 2017 will mark 50 years exactly since abortion was legalized in the UK. Then as now, a group of women fought tooth and nail to enshrine their right to access a safe abortion, without harassment or intimidation, in law.
SYDNEY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Australians will "fight tooth and nail" against an Indian company's plan to build one of the world's biggest coal mines in Australia, said a delegation of businessmen and conservationists heading to India to demand clean energy from Adani Enterprises.
He had to be pulled out of a cesspit he fell into as a two-year-old, fought tooth-and-nail for everything he achieved and, with his immense footballing talent, led Argentina to their second World Cup triumph in 1986 in Mexico.
Democrats' rhetoric has tended to focus on demanding a release of the "full Mueller report" — something that is a nice slogan but very unlikely to actually happen — in particular, Justice will fight tooth-and-nail against jeopardizing secretive sources and ongoing investigations.
Because here's a brief list of new shows, in their first years of Emmy eligibility, that have enjoyed marked success at other industry and critical awards, and which are all fighting tooth and nail to make it into the Emmy drama race.
So in the midst of those dismal numbers and the fact that women need to fight tooth and nail just to be heard, it's downright embarrassing that an organization that claims to lift up women can't find a damn woman to open its marquee event.
The 37-year-old American told Reuters he will battle "tooth and nail" for a third world crown in Doha in September after running a surprising 29.86 seconds at last weekend's Prefontaine Classic where he finished second to compatriot Christian Coleman's world-leading 2100.
With the victory, the 13th-seeded Belarusian gained revenge for a quarter-final loss to the second-seeded German at the Australian Open, her only defeat of the season, but had to fight tooth and nail to earn it in a 21-minute tussle.
LAUNCESTON, Australia (Reuters) - The concept that producers of fossil fuel will have to pay for the carbon emissions created by their use is something the industry will no doubt fight tooth and nail, but two recent developments in Australia show the battle may be starting.
Once more, it was David against Goliath: a small group led by another obsessive intellectual, Nikolaus Pevsner, fighting tooth and nail to persuade the whole government, the whole of the British public, all academe and almost all architects that Britain's Victorian buildings were worth saving.
And yet, the NRA, "gun enthusiasts" and Second Amendment conservatives fight tooth and nail for the right to own any, and all, kinds of weapons, even if one's name is on a terror watch list or a person has a history of mental illness.
And the loser would not be operating in a vacuum: Should Mr. Trump seek to overturn his defeat by Hillary Clinton, for example, she and a united Democratic Party could be counted on to fight tooth and nail to see that it is not reversed.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's largest economy.
But just as some Republican-controlled states have fought Obamacare tooth and nail for years—refusing the Medicaid expansion it offered, and taking the federal government to court—liberal states may make moves to protect their local economies and residents should the ACA be repealed.
Drug costs have been the center of heated political debate, too, with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promising to halt big price hikes if elected, and the U.S. state of California weighing in on a price-limits measure the industry is fighting tooth and nail.
Voters who are activated to battle tooth-and-nail against the resurrection of our white supremacist past have every reason to press candidates for evidence that their failing marks on some of the most consequential issues affecting race and gender justice won't be repeated.
The Department of Education, which is run largely by people brought in from the lending industry, now busies itself protecting its cash cow and fights tooth and nail behind the scenes to ensure that bankruptcy, statutes of limitations and other bedrock consumer protections remain gone.
If he is going to enter the campaign in the embarrassing position of not having fulfilled that pledge, at the very minimum he's going to have to show that he exhausted every option at his disposal and fought for the wall tooth and nail.
Just because electric cars and solar powers are clearly a good idea, a win for everyone who doesn't directly benefit from our legacy fossil-fuel infrastructure, doesn't mean they won't be fought tooth and nail, by the Western oil industry, by petrostates, and — bafflingly — by conservative populists.
Coca-Cola cans at a bottling plant in UtahPhoto: George Frey (Getty Images)Soft drink companies have fought tooth and nail to hold onto their customers, even as public health experts and governments have tried to get people to cut down on the sugary products they make.
The NCAA fights tooth and nail for amateurism, an arguably illegal system of inarguable economic control; player-friendly reforms such as cost-of-living stipends and the ability to even offer four-year scholarships have come only as a result of legal defeats and public shamings.
" Smith campaign spokesman Jordan Berry pushed back: "Lamar Smith is the author of the strongest immigration enforcement legislation to become law in recent history, has championed the expansion of E-Verify, and has fought the erosion of our immigration laws by this administration tooth and nail.
But as he heads into the next few debates and the final sprint before Iowa and New Hampshire, he'll no longer be on the defense as the presumptive nominee fending off other candidates, but will have to fight tooth and nail to come out on top.
But Narang argues that the order will make issuing commonsense rules nearly impossible—picking rules with no value to be axed will be hard enough, then rolling back rules takes as long as making them, and revocations will be fought tooth and nail by interest groups.
Clinton, meanwhile, seemed to be fighting tooth-and-nail Wednesday to stall Sanders's new momentum, arguing that while her opponent may pick up some additional wins, she will continue to rack up an "insurmountable" delegate lead, and have the party's nomination by the start of the summer.
"These fee-for-service hospitals are fighting tooth and nail to retain patients — and the vendors are responding to these needs," Dr. Bob Kocher, one of the key architects of the Affordable Care Act and a health tech investor with Venrock previously told KQED in 2015.
You'll recall ... things were getting pretty ugly between Joey and the guys just a few short weeks ago ahead of their Grammys performance, which Joey was fighting tooth and nail to be a part of -- even taking the issue to court in a last-ditch effort, but was unsuccessful.
"We will hold President-elect Trump accountable to the values that truly make America great, but we'll fight him tooth and nail when he appeals to the baser instincts that diminish America and its greatness, instincts that have too often plagued this country and his campaign," he said.
But this is the same company that's constantly being cited for violating environmental regulations; that's been fighting tooth and nail against accusations of polluting drinking water in North Carolina; and that has made six-figure contributions to ensure that Republicans who deny climate change maintain their Senate majority.
"By this point, the American people will have experienced the full benefits of a true Medicare for All option, and they can see for themselves how that experience stacks up against high-priced care that requires them to fight tooth-and-nail against their insurance company," Warren wrote.
"Those who were most guilty of causing the financial crash in 2008 have fought tooth and nail to avoid being held responsible — and they have been wildly successful at doing that," said Dennis Kelleher, president and chief executive of Better Markets, an advocacy group focused on financial markets.
Since the Delaware Supreme Court approved the use of the poison-pill takeover defense in 1985, the courts have basically blessed the following tradeoff: On the one hand, corporate directors can fight tooth and nail to stop a deal and the courts will give only limited scrutiny to defensive tactics.
Democratic leaders woke up Wednesday facing two years in the wilderness and a big dilemma: Play to the liberal wing of their caucus and battle Trump tooth-and-nail -- or cater to the moderate Democratic faction eager to cut deals, even if it means some wins for the White House.
We, however, feel we must point out committing violence against Nazis has often been hailed as a patriotic act, dating back to World War II. Of course, that was a unique circumstance; we were fighting tooth and nail to protect our nation's values from an attack by the worst of humanity.
Regardless, it's not often you get such an unfiltered view of how billionaire investors view a deal of this ilk, but in spite of pressing for a sale of Xerox, this is obviously not the deal these men want, and they have made it clear they will fight it tooth and nail.
Trump's U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, one of his more progressive appointees who grew up in a depressed blue-collar town in Ohio, fought tooth and nail for the new deal to include increased labor protections for workers both in Mexico and the United States, much to the ire of other Republican legislators.
But Trump's message is consistent with the one being made by Jordan, the former Freedom Caucus chairman running for Speaker who said Monday that "heck yes" conservatives would fight tooth and nail to stop GOP leaders from punting a fight over funding the border wall and other Trump priorities until after Election Day.
Where Reid had a reputation for making decisions with a small cadre of allies and fighting tooth and nail with caucus members, like centrist West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, who threatened to break rank, Schumer made it a point to bring both the party's centrist and far-left wings to the table.
The LIGO team owes its Nobel Prize partly to skeptical physicists and astronomers (who didn't like that a physics experiment was being called an "observatory") who fought the project tooth and nail, holding its proponents' feet to the fire in studies and workshops over and over, making them prove that it would work.
Meanwhile, Legends of Localization: Book 1 is a detailed, nitty-gritty tooth-and-nail tearing apart of one of Miyamoto's breakout classics, The Legend of Zelda, that exposes the game's underpinnings by way of showing how the original Japanese version was localized into the American product that we outside Japan are best familiar with.
But in the "ground game" phase of Iowa caucus season, when campaigns fight tooth and nail for every last vote, it's easy to imagine a campaign manager on the verge of defeat in one precinct or another, pausing for a split-second to question the wisdom of reducing an entire religious group to collateral damage.
To tap dance around that lawsuit, AT&T lawyers leaned heavily on the common carrier exemption in section 5 of the FTC Act—claiming that its common carrier status (ironically the same classification it has fought tooth and nail against on the net neutrality front) exempted it from being held accountable by the FTC.
He proceeded to govern as the jerkiest member of the chamber of commerce promptly implementing union busting right to work legislation and fighting tooth and nail to strip Kentuckians of the healthcare they'd gained through the A.C.A. Medicaid expansion, which was more successfully implemented in Kentucky than in any other state in the country.
Look to the horrific mess that is New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority for an example; disabled people are fighting tooth and nail for access in the decaying, heavily criticized subway system, one where newly renovated platforms lack elevators because officials say it's "too expensive," which a judge just ruled that is a clear ADA violation.
But they acknowledge that the new trifecta of threats to the integrity of the 2020 ballot—the end of the 1982 consent decree, the post-Shelby restrictions on DOJ oversight efforts, and the false rhetoric we can expect from Trump as he fights tooth and nail for reelection—offers plenty of reasons to worry.
There might be some risk in the organization—the bad behavior happened—but more often than not, they're doing a cost-benefit analysis of saying, 'What's it going to cost us to fight this tooth and nail,' and [deciding] it's going to be cheaper to give this person a few thousand dollars and be on their way.
With 1.2 billion citizens—most of whom aren't connected to the internet, but nevertheless comprise the second largest smartphone market in the world—India is seen as an untapped gold mine for Western tech companies like Google and Facebook, who are fighting tooth and nail to be the first one to get a foothold in the country.
The House plan is also far from final and, as notes The New York Times, has already "ignited a legislative and lobbying fight" with business groups, special interests and Democrats expected to fight tooth and nail for their own interests as Republicans race to get the legislation passed and on Trump's desk for a final sign-off by Christmas.
I thought of all the workers out there soon-to-be-unemployed by automation or other advancements, conned into fighting tooth-and-nail for the privilege of ruining their bodies in a coal mine or an 80-hour workweek of multiple sub-minimum wage gig economy jobs rather than addressing the larger forces at play keeping them impoverished.
But here's what's not reasonable: Complaining about the indignity of the Golf Channel or low ratings or never being on SportsCenter or whatever other consequence of niche status comes your way, but then fighting tooth and nail against any notion that this league should ever try to be anything other than exactly what it already is.
Nonetheless, the future looks bright for India, and one can only hope that government legislators will fight tooth and nail to make the digital colony provide as many benefits to Indians as possible, demanding local sourcing requirements, and offices, distribution centers and stores be set up on Indian soil to provide jobs and contribute to the economy.
To seek the life-saving hormone therapy she needed, she had to fight tooth and nail; last year, she was sentenced to solitary confinement as a punishment for attempting suicide, which caused her to attempt suicide once more; this year, the Army continued to deny permission for her to grow her hair past male military grooming standards.
"I don't think you can restore trust without acknowledging when you are wrong, and towards the end of his administration the stop-and-frisk activity was reduced, but at the same time, his administration fought tooth and nail to defend his stop-and-frisk policies," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
"I was one of a number of middle school teachers in our district who believed in the IB program, but fought against it tooth and nail because it was too much to abide by the state mandates at the same time as having to implement this program," says Kelly Osterhout, who taught middle school in the York County School District in Virginia for four years.
I spoke to Cohn this week about his role in challenging Navarro, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and ultimately the president over their dedication to tariffs as a tool in trade negotiations: Sources say Cohn internally acquiesced to putting tariffs on washing machines and solar panels but fought tooth and nail, and ultimately resigned, over Trump's decision to impose massive tariffs on steel and aluminum.
It seems that lawmakers in New Hampshire have been fighting tooth and nail for the past couple years to prevent any form of legislation aimed at legalizing marijuana to infiltrate the legislative gates, but there is a distinct possibility that these prohibitionists will let their guard down just enough this session to make way for a measure aimed at eliminating the criminal penalties for those busted holding small amounts of weed.
"In the way that income inequality has been the constant thread through Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 220006 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE's career in and out of elected office, fighting for women tooth-and-nail is that for Kirsten," he said.
Democrats immediately pounced on President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's efforts to roll back rules policing the financial industry, accusing him of doling out gifts to Wall Street and vowing to fight him tooth and nail.
Yet based on some of its release coverage, it would be understandable if someone unfamiliar with Style Savvy got the impression the latest game in the series was socially regressive, if not outright sexist—a gum-popping mall princess sim spitting in the face of Lara Croft and Emily Kaldwin and Evie Frye and the all the badass lady characters we've been fighting tooth and nail to see more of in our games.
He said, 'Look, the reason we're not getting anything done in DC is because Republicans refuse to work with Democrats and Democrats refuse to work with Republicans,' and so his message was I want to work across the aisle to get things done... While our opponent was talking about how she was going to support Trump on everything, Joe said, 'I will work with Trump if it helps the district and i will fight him tooth and nail if it hurts the district.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 21625 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 2900 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE (Mass.), are fighting tooth and nail for union support.

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