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  • The to-ing and fro-ing before the statement was completed was nearly an all-day project before and after a session with East Timor's independence hero, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.

    Evelyn Leopold: Libya at UN: A Bridge Too Far Evelyn Leopold 2011

  • The inevitable political to-ing and fro-ing need not have been fatal to the effort to turn ASX into a "real" company, if ASX had ultimately convinced Canberra to let the market-driven deal proceed.

    Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange Joseph Sternberg 2011

  • MARTIN: ... because there's been a lot of sort of wrenching about whether he should have - whether the president should be on a program like this, and there's been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about this.

    'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race? 2010

  • The to-ing and fro-ing before the statement was completed was nearly an all-day project before and after a session with East Timor's independence hero, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.

    Evelyn Leopold: Libya at UN: A Bridge Too Far Evelyn Leopold 2011

  • MARTIN: ... because there's been a lot of sort of wrenching about whether he should have - whether the president should be on a program like this, and there's been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about this.

    'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race? 2010

  • And there's also I should tell you, in the spirit of full disclosure, there's been some to-ing and fro-ing about whether people at NPR should go to these rallies or not and so there's all that.

    'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race? 2010

  • It involved a certain amount of to-ing and fro-ing with stitches and marker every time I got there on a decrease row, but it worked.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Jean 2009

  • The only thing that has been a struggle is that we've had to spend a lot of time apart and I've been to-ing and fro-ing between the US and here.

    We got married as fast as we could 2012

  • It involved a certain amount of to-ing and fro-ing with stitches and marker every time I got there on a decrease row, but it worked.

    Sober Sunday Jean 2009

  • And there's also I should tell you, in the spirit of full disclosure, there's been some to-ing and fro-ing about whether people at NPR should go to these rallies or not and so there's all that.

    'Shop Talk': Should Kendrick Meek Stay In Florida Senate Race? 2010

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