fistfight

It's not like a fistfight, where you can jus punch the other guy. Lawsuits need to have legal grounds.

He can't easily beat Bane/Smith in a fistfight. The best he gets is to see Smith's machine form after being blinded.

And by fistfight You mean that one party does all the fighting and the other being all the unconscious?

When the twins get into a fistfight they're still expected to go to school together. None of that means that they shouldn't be trying to act like a family when things don't suck.

And, since you used a fistfight metaphor, allow me to remind you they never entered one without having their brass knuckles ready.

I'm just predicting another fistfight based on your heartbeat charts from previous meetings. I've booked you in to see the psychiatrist for Wednesday."

Someone gets in a fistfight over a woman, this is not mature, but it's different from cold-cocking strangers on the street because you think it's fun.

If someone started a fistfight in the conference's bar after hours, would you be surprised if the conference chose to not invite that person back again, ever? Would you come to his defense by saying "It's not the conference organizers' responsiblity what happens in the bar afterwards!"

Two guys having a fistfight outside a bar will add to the Australian stats, but not the US stats. It's the same story with the same country across time - not to mention wildly different reporting rates, especially when you're considering a period where modern policing was still in its infancy.

If a drunk person initiates a fistfight with someone else in the parking lot after a football game most people are likely to place this event into the proper context, to put the responsibility on the individual primarily. But if the same thing were to happen under "more unusual" circumstances suddenly all logic flies out the window and people are more inclined to think those circumstances are somehow intimately related to the altercation.