tug of war

The district has been in a political tug-of-war since the blue wave of 2018, when Democrats retook the House and millennial Democrat Katie Hill unseated the district’s Republican incumbent — only to resign less than a year later after a sex scandal.

To explain the tug-of-war that happens between him and Cuarón when they work together, Lubezki refers to a story that the late actor Peter O’Toole once shared.

City Council members are in a tug-of-war over who will represent USC.

We spoke for some time about the legislative tug-of-war that she’d confront, and peripheral issues.

But even Glosserman, a tireless organizer, acknowledged that he sometimes grapples with an internal tug-of-war between optimism and worry about the future.