Toulon like to direct their opponents into quicksand, bogging them down in a game where the ball struggles for breath.
And are they guilty of deterring European companies, either repelling them at the border with high tariffs, or bogging them down in cumbersome rules and regulations?
Heavy rains, though, have literally bogged them down, and after an initial burst of activity, the Kenyan advance seems to have slowed.
She and other officials said they hoped that the scrutiny the programs are undergoing would not bog them down, but delays appeared all but inevitable.
"Half a Heart" has many of Brown's stylistic trademarks, including the shifting viewpoints and detailed flashbacks that make her narratives multidimensional without bogging them down.
"If we take carbon sequestration and market mechanisms out of the equation, or bog them down with such overly restrictive rules that nobody uses them," she said, "then we are limiting our ability to meet our environmental objectives".
The Kurds may be no match for the Turkish army, but they could still bog them down in another guerrilla war, aided and abetted by the 5,000 or so Turkish-Kurd fighters based in their territory.And what of relations with Europe?
A spokesman added: "Jeremy Hunt is a strong advocate of GPs who has scrapped 40% of the targets that previously bogged them down in bureaucracy and freed them to give more personal care, but we make no apology for pushing for greater transparency over pay and higher standards for patients".
One way to do that is to empower them to get things done and avoid bogging them down in bureaucracy, he says.
Second, instead of bogging them down with gimmicky features and a crazy GUI, Sony kept them fairly basic and instead concentrated on the LCD and audio quality and battery life.
