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• n  any hard struggle between equally matched groups
• n  a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses

• Since the internet was born, there has been a tug-of-war between aggregating information and finding ways to navigate through it.
• It was the Hearst-Pulitzer tug-of-war over Richard Outcault's forlorn Yellow Kid that brought on the day of the colored comic strip, and gave "yellow journalism" its name.
• A group of researchers sued, starting a legal tug-of-war and negotiations that ended only last summer, with the scientists getting their first extensive access to the bones.

News & Articles

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• Father's Day Weekend Events
  This year is the 64th Tuolumne Lumber Jubilee. The four day event will continue through Sunday at the Tuolumne Memorial Park in Tuolumne. The celebration includes; logging contests, tug-of-war, Queen
  June 15, 2013 - MyMotherLode.com
• How the Dow's Reacting to the U.S.-Japan Divide
  Competing concerns are creating a tug-of-war among investors.        
  June 13, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Guantánamo debate: When is a spiral notebook a weapon?
  In continuing tug-of-war over attorney-client conditions, defense lawyer for alleged al-Qaida bomber asks Guantánamo judge to order prison to let attorney bring spiral notebooks, pens and eyeglasses to prison camp meetings.
  June 11, 2013 - Miami Herald

Quotes

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• LeBron James in USA Today
  It was a tug-of-war match for the first three quarters,James said. "My teammates needed me to make plays and I did."
• Tony Stewart in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Four was my first ever go-kart number that I started with,Stewart said. "Everybody knows that AJ Foyt has always been my all-time favorite hero. And when this opportunity came about, it was about a five-minute tug-of-war between do I want...