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infighting
Boxing combat at close quarters in which proper blows are inhibited and the fighters try to wear down each other's strength


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The promptness of his resignation, however, just one day after the NEC's decision to recall him, suggested that an experienced infighter like Mbeki had made the calculations and had realised he faced total humiliation if things were pushed to a vote in the National Assembly.
Obama's top liaison to Congress, Phil Schiliro, is a skilled political infighter and his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, is one of the few people who can boast of shouting down Sean Hannity of Fox News on Hannity's own show, reports the New York Times.
The revered Isaac Newton was a paranoid, vindictive infighter who made enemies of both Leibniz and Hooke, two eminent rivals, and gleefully presided over the drawing and quartering of a political enemy.
 
 
 
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