1988, Robert I. Rotberg, The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power, Oxford University Press →ISBN, page 349
For him, a sense of accomplishment came not from the cut and thrust of clever words, but from didactic, expansive, and thoroughly repetitive articulation.
2000, Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America, Oxford University Press →ISBN, page 179
The rise of a number of new theoretical insights emerging from the routine cut and thrust of intellectual life, […]
2001, David Winter, Winter's Tale: Living Through an Age of Change in Church and Media, Lion Books →ISBN, page 120
I was happy doing what I was goot at, which was producing programmes, and not very sure that the cut and thrust of BBC management was quite my forte.
2003, Mun Cheong Yong, The Indonesian Revolution and the Singapore Connection, 1945-1949, NUS Press →ISBN, page 67
However, in the cut and thrust of disputes and acrimonious arguments among the Indonesians in Singapore, it was difficult to deny that the competing groups were also concerned about the immeasurable benefits of being recognized as the most representative of Republican interests in Singapore.
2005, Thomas Reilly, Jan Cabri, Duarte Araújo, Science and Football V: The Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress on Sports Science and Football, Routledge →ISBN, page 256
Bass (1981) identified that there are two playing styles in Rugby sevens; the results suggest that successful teams tended to play a 'cat and mouse' style and that unsuccessful teams tended to play a 'cut and thrust' style.
2006, Ellie Chambers, Marshall Gregory, Teaching and Learning English Literature, SAGE →ISBN, page 180
[…] in order to establish fruitful interpersonal relationships with and among the students; in the second-year class, where 'the language is held more in common', there was much more ideational cut and thrust.
2008, Wayne Errington, Peter Van Onselen, John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography, Melbourne Univ. Publishing →ISBN, page 242
Howard asked him to think it over, citing Baume's age, over sixty-five, as a reason to move on from the cut and thrust of politics.
2009, Brian Lumley, Necroscope: Harry and the Pirates: and Other Tales from the Lost Years, Macmillan →ISBN, page 120
But in the cut and thrust of things: well, it happens I was there! And never a plastic sword to mention, and damn jew crushed tomatoes — er, ketchup? — either!
2010, Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing →ISBN
He relished the cut and thrust of the courtroom, where victory depended on being able to 'see the point of view, and anticipate the reactions, of an equally astute opposing counsel'.
He was a loner, he always had been, and he found personal relationships a challenge. He loved the cut and thrust of business, the exhilaration of a new deal or takeover, the challenge of cutting out the dead wood and increasing profit […]
