One of several problems that delayed the formation of the new government was the rear guard action waged by the Shiite Fadila Party to hang onto the Oil Ministry, which it controlled under former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari.
You and your lawyers want to thrash this out, case by case, fighting a trench-warfare, rear-guard action?
After years of considering themselves the cutting edge of Congress, they found themselves fighting rear-guard battles instead.
Even now it is waging a rear-guard action to undo the easing that the FASB promulgated in April.
The judge's clumsy move is a rear-guard action against a basic freedom.
Brik may be fighting a rear-guard action.
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The printed word has fought a rear-guard action against not only computers and television, but also a whole horde of digital upstarts from DVDs and video games to mobile phones, iPods, YouTube and now the mobile internet.
On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.
The Coast Guard is being criticized for waiting hours before telling the public the spill was much worse than originally reported, and the Coast Guard's Rear Admiral Craig Bone says that heavy fog is no excuse for running into the bridge.
As you heard the Rear Admiral explain, the Coast Guard is in the lead, and EPA on the National Response Team provides support.
Rear Admiral CRAIG BONE (U.S. Coast Guard): There's no reason because you're in fog that this incident should have occurred.
Further SUV references, such as a load sill guard and a concealing skid plate fascia panel, highlight the rear bumper.
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The rear of the small building where Myers lived was burned out, and police continued to guard the building, where they found guns and ammunition.
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