The parry-riposte is often done in a sequence of two or three, viz. the fencers quickly switch between attacking, defending, attacking, defending - back and forth until a touch is scored or one of the fencers backs down.
His constant tirades against China and Mexico will go into overdrive, and he will constantly attack Clinton's back-and-forth record.
The back-and-forth attacks have often given way to exaggeration, as in the Senate race in Pennsylvania, where Pat Toomey, a Republican, and Joe Sestak, a Democrat, are vying to replace Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican-turned-Democrat.
The harsh words today were the latest in a series of back-and-forth attacks between the two Democratic presidential candidates, who had spent the past few days arguing over who was a more reliable defender of abortion rights.
Tonight, Mitt Romney may have had a similar moment, during a back-and-forth about the attack on the Benghazi Consulate.
The hosts' attacking style drew England back and forth across the field and as the gaps appeared Wales edged closer and closer to the try-line.
Unable to sit still for more than a moment, he's up and attacking the whiteboard, pacing back and forth around the room like a caged jaguar, a minute later pounding the table.
The back-and-forth continues for weeks.
It's a back-and-forth conversation.
After two political assassinations, multiple militant attacks and nonstop back and forth between government and opposition leaders, Tunisians – as one newspaper noted – have had enough.
The news media has been bouncing attacks and responses back and forth for weeks, but what is very little discussed is how that money has helped the Clinton Foundation help Haiti's people.
