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(redirected from fighting fire with fire)

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Howard Zinn is quite correct in pointing out that, at least in terms of political violence, fighting fire with fire is a contradiction that often spreads violence.
``We take these encroachments seriously, and in this case we're fighting fire with fire,'' Romney communications director Eric Fehrnstrom said in a telephone interview from Boston.
Hoping to preserve the world's chocolate output, scientists have begun fighting fire with fire, so to speak--or in this case, fungus with fungus.
 
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