The long-rumbling war of attrition between cats and gardeners has escalated to a new level.
I suppose the honest – and impossibly wanky - answer is: a decades-long war of attrition between politicians and the media.
The war of attrition between Shenhua and the mine's opponents has taken its toll on local people.
There is an attrition between Alice and her would-be actress daughter Lydia (Kristen Stewart).
There have been plenty of generational comedies about the attrition between young and old.
The last thing America needs is a war of attrition between two mutually exclusive, absolute systems of belief.
It became the climax of a war of attrition between the Militant-run council and Margaret Thatcher's government.
With the fast ice still there, though, it is now a slow war of attrition between the number of penguins and the extent of the ice.
From the beginning, there is a war of attrition between Margot and Pauline, with occasional truces to remember happy moments of shared experience and to offer barbed compliments.
Pixar also make shorts to preface their features: accompanying WALLE is 'Presto', about the war of attrition between a magician and his rabbit.
Until such ideas are widely established, it's hard to see beyond a short-term future of grinding attrition between cash-strapped councils and the 5,000-plus 5,000-plusgroups that campaign on their local park's behalfriends
