Citations:hold the ring


 * 1980 — Tim Robinson, "In Whose Opinion...", New Scientist, 13 March 1980:
 * If the media believe they hold the ring between light and dark, democracy and totalitarianism, they have to recognise first the awkward fact of this complexity; and use it to chip away the shell surrounding the ungraspable truth.
 * 1991 — Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India, Viking (1991), ISBN 0670819190:
 * The police no longer attempt to hold the ring between the farmers and landless labourers fighting for just the paltry minimum wage.
 * 2006 — "Holding the ring in the capital", The Economist, 31 August 2006:
 * Lieutenant-General Fry says that coalition forces will continue military operations “to separate the two sides of the sectarian conflict” but that such operations were meant to “hold the ring” until the politicians come up with a solution.