Republicans and Democrats expect the hearings to produce a bruising debate over the nation's economic future in the middle of an election campaign.

Late in 1981, after a bruising debate within Gannett's corporate elite, its board of directors approved Mr. Neuharth's plan for USA Today.

They have rejected various compromises and are bracing themselves for a bruising debate and vote on Thursday.

After a bruising debate in Parliament, the central government finally dispatched a senior retired police officer, K. P. S. Gill, to advise Mr. Modi.

The proposed Madison-Rafah Sister City Project occasioned an "anguished and bruising debate" in Madison.

It was just a few years after the war in Korea, McCarthyism and a bruising debate over who lost China.

I doubt that either was inspired by the sort of partisan politics that have made the play a topic of such bruising debate in New York.

After a bruising debate, the reduction, to go into effect next September, is relatively minor - down to 15 or 18, depending on how the foreign language requirement gets worked out.

After a bruising and impassioned debate, the Georgia State Legislature last month approved a new state flag, one not dominated by the Confederate Southern Cross.

A full reparations bill has no realistic chance of being enacted, but it promises to re-open a potentially bruising debate about the black experience in the US.