tug of war

Across the country, adults are embracing their youthful side to the extreme, gathering in parks to toss water balloons, play tug of war and hop around in competitive sack races.

“We’re seeing a tug of war,” said Joe Davis, chief economist at Vanguard Group.

"We built a new model of asteroid-spin evolution that considers the tug of war between two key processes, namely collisions in the Asteroid Belt that can jolt asteroids into a tumbling state, and internal friction, which gradually smooths their spin back to a stable rotation," said Zhou.

"A tug of war between the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts is going to be a driving force in the coming term," Samuel Bray, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, said at a briefing last month.

As Alma reconciles this moral tug of war she’s found herself in, Roberts digs her nails into the opportunity of a lifetime, taking on the role of an unlikeable, power-hungry, exasperated woman on the verge with delectable aplomb.