jousting

That deal will probably get done after some more jousting.

Add in the site’s location and historical evidence of a nearby jousting arena, and “the evidence really points to them being jousting horses,” Creighton says.

America’s two largest energy companies, Exxon Mobil and Chevron, are jousting over a prized new source of oil in the waters off Guyana, in Latin America.

“Maybe people have bigger dreams,” but public defense “is a big deal for me,” said Cuevas, who spends more time conferring with clients in hallways than jousting in court.

“This is not the case of two players mutually jousting where both players could reasonably expect escalating contact or for both players’ sticks to come up high,” the league said.