Especially when facing an opponent engaged in open civil war.
After deploying these depth charges throughout the speech, Kerry kept a straight face as he delivered the time-honored request that his opponent engage in a high-minded campaign of "big ideas, not small-minded attacks".
But, as Wheatcroft repeatedly demonstrates, the Habsburgs were fearsome too, and perhaps even crueler than their opponents, engaging not only in full-scale massacres but in flayings, beheadings and impalements.
The bid by nearly two dozen City Council members to repeal a term limits law exploded yesterday into an angry ground war at City Hall, with supporters and opponents engaging in face-to-face shouting matches even before the bill was formally introduced.
In retrospect, it is obvious that Social Security's Depression-era opponents engaged in fear-mongering, not economic reality.
The Russians spent about 2.5m rubles supporting his election, Poniatowski's supporters and opponents engaged in some military posturing and even minor clashes, and in the end, the Russian army was deployed only a few miles from the election sejm, which met at Wola near Warsaw.
Taken together, our results indicate that despite differences in social structure and evolutionary history, ravens exhibit similar conflict resolution strategies to primates, as former opponents engaged in post-conflict reconciliation to repair valuable relationships and reduce the likelihood of renewed aggression.
He has rejected the alternative that just he and his Democratic opponent, H. Carl McCall, engage in a one-on-one debate.
Elected officials "tear into" their opponents, "take the fight" to their opponent and engage — as we see clearly now, in the third week of the federal government shutdown — in the tactical equivalent of trench warfare.
Senator Obama is quite accurate when he says that his opponents have engaged in and will engage in a "politics of fear".
