It's a war of attrition to see who is exhausted first and who will win the battle for Bahrain's reputation in London and Washington and Geneva".
In the last year (2011-12) we have seen the conviction rate rise to 73%, delivering the lowest attrition rates ever recorded.
The problem with bottom-up counts, like the FBI collection that begins with police records, is a severe attrition rate for data as it climbs toward the national light, as deaths go unreported or unrelayed from one level to another.
However, they did give David Cameron a sizeable majority, which he now lacks, and those of us with long memories will remember how that slender win in 1992 played out for John Major, whose war of attrition with a rump of rightwing MPs became emblematic of his demise.
It's an ode to joyless sex, hard-won after a war of attrition.
And, for second generation Latinos who discreetly agonize over our Spanish language attrition.
Related: Binyamin Netanyahu denounces Iran nuclear negotiations A second scenario is that the negotiators miss their deadline and plough on through the night and into Wednesday, relying on the diplomacy of attrition until a common declaration is produced.
The chorus in Henry V invites the audience to compare the young king's heroic campaign in France to the struggle that was actually going on when Shakespeare was writing – Elizabeth I's long war of attrition against the Catholic and Gaelic lords of Ireland.
The attrition had looked to be taking its toll late in the first half, when Port piled on three goals in the space of four minutes to grab a 20-point lead at the major break.
A multi-day race is a war of attrition: a managed decline.
There is a huge gap between the face of charitable giving, which is still very much a "pretty nurse selling poppies from a tray", and the reality: a numbers game in a highly competitive business based on capture and attrition rates, in which the people giving are airbrushed out of the equation.
