The haredi parties, who have been Mr Netanyahu's loyal allies, are girding for battle.
It's girding to defeat several pending bills that would correct some marketplace excesses.
When it ceases to be so, the tax theory girding it is off base, in my opinion.
Virtually all Hong Kong's major political groupings are girding for the electoral battle.
The keepers of Wall Street history were girding for the storm as well.
Then there's the Nets, who are trying to seduce Dwight Howard and girding for owner Mikhail Prokhorov's bid for the presidency of Russia.
Business lobbyists were girding for battle even before the budget's unveiling.
And there are some civil defense preparations underway in the sense that Israelis appear to be girding themselves for the possibility this is going to happen.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Gaggle aboard the Press Bus en route Davenport, IA
Mr. SETH STEVENSON (Ad Critic, Slate Magazine): The 2006 World Cup kicks off on June 9, and Nike and Adidas are already girding themselves for a marketing battle.
While Covidien has a large pharmaceutical business--it's the largest U.S. manufacturer of acetaminophen, the ingredient in Tylenol, and opiate painkillers--Meelia isn't girding to compete with drug giants like Merck.
Will local conservatism mix with the imported variety to forge a new style of Catholicism, girding for fresh battles with secularism and longing for a reversal of the Reformation?
Some see a leftist group girding itself to battle a right-wing reformist People's Party (PP) government, led by Mariano Rajoy, that is likely to win power in the next election.
But places like Southwark have little time to rest on their laurels: they are girding themselves for yet another of the Church of England's rancorous internal battles, this time over money, not sex.
Spaniards from all walks of life, from consumers to homeowners to government employees, are worriedly girding for the bite of the harshest economic-austerity program in the nearly four decades since Spain returned to democracy.
In the tense border zone where integrationist militias appear to be girding for a campaign of cross-border destabilization and terror, overstretched Interfet forces will almost certainly need to rely on Falintil as their local eyes and ears.
At the same time, the White House will be girding for the fall and what officials hope will be the endgame for the largest political battles of Mr. Obama's first year: the final pushes for health care and energy.
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