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Ellis's analysis might seem counterintuitive if you believe the media thrive on conflict and want the Romney-Gingrich steel-cage match to continue.
Dan Kennedy: Gingrich Loses the Media Primary Dan Kennedy 2012
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The famous abolitionist is locked in a historical steel-cage match with the increasingly forgotten patriot John Hanson - one that's playing out not far from John Hanson Highway in Annapolis, where Maryland lawmakers, historians and activists have been debating whether to refresh the state's history by dumping Hanson in favor of Tubman.
Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown 2011
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They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive.
Open Discussion at Republican Party House Issues Conference 2010
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A second female was less fearful, reaching beneath its steel-cage door for bits of fruit.
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Fred insisted that the only way to avoid a coming worldwide steel-cage death match between the seven emerging mega-nations was to recognize the biological roots of our rivalries and work together to speed the evolutionary conveyor belt toward its intended final consequence, the New Man.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Fred insisted that the only way to avoid a coming worldwide steel-cage death match between the seven emerging mega-nations was to recognize the biological roots of our rivalries and work together to speed the evolutionary conveyor belt toward its intended final consequence, the New Man.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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A second female was less fearful, reaching beneath its steel-cage door for bits of fruit.
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Fred insisted that the only way to avoid a coming worldwide steel-cage death match between the seven emerging mega-nations was to recognize the biological roots of our rivalries and work together to speed the evolutionary conveyor belt toward its intended final consequence, the New Man.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Cult of the Amateur is a thought-provoking and lively read, and on one very base level, it makes me want to see Keen and James Surowiecki in a steel-cage match to see whose cultural paradigm reigns supreme.
Books 2009
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McMahon, who casts the competition as a steel-cage match between himself and Billionaire Ted, was being beaten at his own game.
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