rearguard

The fossil fuel industry is fighting a rearguard action at this point.

I just hope you're right about the rearguard action which might now get underway.

The copyright backed media industry is fighting a rearguard action here, they know they are losing, they just want to milk the cow a little longer.

What is with KDE and its angry rearguard actions?

Which is the key point: at best, social democratic parties are mostly engaged in rearguard actions, trying to protect the best of what was built during the 20th century.

And thus, the #nymwars come to an ignominious end, with Google surrendering unconditionally, after dragging out the conflict as long as it could while fighting a constant rearguard action.

The result wll be a rearguard that only slightly slows the decline of the PC by dressing it up as a tablet, and leaves Microsoft without a competitive tablet product.

And it's a damned shame for those outside the department, for whom 6.001 was truly valuable, that MIT no longer offers anything in its niche (outside of a rearguard 1 month version of it during January).

With the recent IPv4 address burn rate — the allocation rate the last remaining addresses block were issued — reclaiming a half-dozen /8 blocks would be a rearguard action at most, and an effort and a hassle that would detract from IPv6.

I am sure that this explanation will remain controversial for quite some time for artificial intelligence, as a mimicking of the human mind, prefers to view itself as being at the front line, whereas my explanation relegates it to the rearguard.

That aside, Obama's emails were a call to action (fed the grassroots operations that led to his smashing victory in many swing states), while Romney's were more about inspiring the recipient about the candidate - which given the many gaffes commited by Romney, seem like a rearguard action.

I'm still fighting a rearguard action against you crazy Americans' perversion of our language a "long time" ago.