Today, though most Americans have turned against the war, the political debate remains mired.

But is it more mired than in the past?

For architecture, too, often remains mired in an authoritarian mode.

A number of mired tanks had been hit, one after another, and had gone up in flames.

Unable to release his mired feet, Monk whipped a fist into another man's face.

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his.

But the stock remains mired far below the initial offering price of $24 in mid-1996.

The entire night of 7-8 July was consumed by the recovery of mired vehicles.

He didn't know that Corcoran had suddenly left the mired car.

Keynes was convinced that, even if wages and prices are flexible, the economy could remain mired.

The movement to seek work in Poland highlights the mired local economies of eastern Germany.

The recent election here, with its murky result and ensuing power struggle, intensified fears that Germany would remain mired.

She clambered backward, boot heels dug into soil, straining like a horse at a mired field gun.

Aquilon tried to glare at him, but looked at her mired ankles again and joined in.

His feet remained mired, but his legs were now clear, and he was able to duck his head to clear it, too.

The country remains mired.

The tar had cooled to the point that she no longer sank... unless she tired to pull free her mired hands.

European Union membership could help Hungary, but only if the country overcomes its obsession with its mired past.

Nigeria, for instance, has earned more than $250 billion for its oil in the last 25 years, yet remains mired in poverty.

"Oh, great..." she mussed as she tugged at the mired leg.

"I'm inclined to agree," Shan said, more than half of his attention still on Val Con's mired pattern.

(Except perhaps for one country, which still remains mired in the Cold War and a stubborn official provincialism: Britain.

In your Guard, we use our taluses to free mired guns and even wagons, and a talus is stronger than thirty mules.

Corcoran's teeth showed, as he said, "You found no smashed bridge and no mired car, I suppose?"

Yet whoever's been using it for a highroad for cattle's managed to do it without leaving a single mired beef to point his tracks."

Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other.

She was already up to her neck in one mire.

He'd lost one of his own boots in a mire.

As the country is at present face down in the mire, such a development could only have positive benefits for us all.

His hand sank into the mire, came up against something hard.

But now he was down again, and deeper in the mire than ever.

This is the dog that I picked out of the mire.

"I can pick that out of the mire once you're gone."

"Pack your things quickly This place will soon be a mire."

Light, what a mire she had stepped into, and while laughing!

Every time they met he was drawn deeper into the mire.

But they were now only a frozen mire, and he could drink there no more.

The mire of misery within him lasted for several minutes.

Much of the new Finnish land was covered by mire.

The Mire is the city's poorest district, outside the city walls.

Their bodies had gone down in mud and mire, never to be seen again - until now.

Now was no time to drag the dead curator's name through the mire.

Everyone has an opinion on how the Greek team ended up in a mire.

Otherwise the whole process will be bogged down in the mire.

It was time to get up from what everyone else regarded as the mire and do all the conventional things again.

Then the mire covered his face, and blotted him out.

It takes a few to destroy the many, especially when even the best of you can be dragged down into the mire.

A valley mire has developed in the area immediately to the south of the springs.

As he sprawled in the mire, a great crack opened ahead.

Once somebody blundered into a mire, had to be pulled out.

His mind is still mired in old ways of thinking.

The car they were in got mired just outside of the town.

She was mired and he would not let her go.

All the while the state's economic development program has been mired in politics.

It was a decision that could have mired the project further.

Here, mired in the future, the short story is alive and well.

"But it's not going to be a process in which we get mired down."

It's got to be something mired down in the politics of all this.

Here he was, a year later, mired in the biggest case of his career.

She took over a department mired in conflicts with many states.

We were only six years out of college and my wife was still mired in graduate school.

Over the last two years, though, the company has been mired in scandal.

But the project has been mired in a legal battle since last fall.

By the end of the 90's they found themselves mired in financial difficulty.

And now there was this situation she had somehow become mired in.

Other companies have been mired in the corrupt legal system.

But the two groups have been mired in tough negotiations.

And the current campaign for governor is mired in mud.

The novel, on the other hand, was getting mired down in itself - but it would have to do.

Over the next year she also became mired in boyfriend trouble.

Perhaps it is the slump he has been mired in since summer.

Prior to that, people thought the market was mired in a box.

"I seem to be mired in my work at the moment.

A film based on the novel has been mired in development hell since 1997.

But slowly now as though the hands of the clock were mired.

She was mired and he would not let her go.

All the while the state's economic development program has been mired in politics.

Over the last two years, though, the company has been mired in scandal.

But the project has been mired in a legal battle since last fall.

Other companies have been mired in the corrupt legal system.

But the two groups have been mired in tough negotiations.

And the current campaign for governor is mired in mud.

Perhaps it is the slump he has been mired in since summer.

Prior to that, people thought the market was mired in a box.

"I seem to be mired in my work at the moment.

A film based on the novel has been mired in development hell since 1997.

But slowly now as though the hands of the clock were mired.

We are mired in Iraq, and not properly prepared at home.

This was no time to be mired down in a failed intervention.

For those reasons and others, the nation is mired in a deep recession.

But the plan still appears to be mired in financial and organizational problems.

However, many aspects of the project have been mired in controversy.

The two have been mired in divorce proceedings since 1992.

Today, the proposed development is mired in lawsuits and politics.

The completion of the road has been mired in controversy.

It just might, she said, make a difference to women from more traditional families, although they are mired in customs hard to break.

The state was booming then, they say, but is mired in recession now.

Two years ago it was mired in recession and high inflation.

They have been mired in the frozen zone around the trade center site for 20 weeks.

Sony has been mired in the red with its television business losing money.