He won the general election, after a brutal primary campaign.
It was a brutal, hard-fought campaign waged all across Alabama.
After such a brutal campaign, one would expect voters to be turned off.
For several years a brutal campaign was fought to quell the insurgent natives.
He tried again two years later and won after a brutal campaign.
It was a brutal campaign with many extrajudicial killings.
Haiti's military leadership has consolidated its power through a brutal campaign of terror.
The net result of this brutal campaign was probably to win more recruits and increase sympathy for the insurgents.
But in 1982, after a brutal campaign against White, he won back the Governor's seat.
The novel chronicles the brutal, Arctic campaign fought on the ice and in the skies above it.