That said, even a critical drubbing may not be enough to stop the party.

Many other politicians came in for much the same drubbing.

Women are more worried about getting a drubbing - and they're right to be.

And, indeed, it could have been an even bigger drubbing.

"I thought he had given the thing up after his last drubbing.

As for how the fighting is going, they say the Indians are taking a drubbing.

"The party is going to take a terrible drubbing in these elections."

He resolved to give her a drubbing once the battle was over.

Give him a good drubbing to make sure he gets the message."

If all they were getting was a drubbing, time enough to pull back and try again when chances looked better.

But it was the most recent drubbing that led to the announcement yesterday.

The loss comes on the heels of a 5-2 drubbing by Norway.

Many trace the beginning of the decline to last season's 62-36 drubbing at Colorado.

He gave up five goals in a 5-2 drubbing.

So far this month, emerging markets and commodities have taken a drubbing.

Internet stocks took a drubbing in April and have yet to recover.

As a result, their shares often took a drubbing.

In an otherwise decisive drubbing, the Administration won one small concession today.

He and the Vikings absorbed a 38-22 drubbing that ended their season.

So why is the new wave of books on atheism getting such a drubbing?

So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing?

And some stocks that have taken a drubbing are poised to recover.

And party officials privately admitted that they had taken a terrible drubbing.

He had taken a splendid drubbing, to be sure.

For the next months Poland was struggling to recover from this drubbing.

They might drub him, but not without bleeding for it.

Both his performance and the entire production were drubbed by critics.

This time it was the Colts who drubbed them, 27-10.

It was not as if the Islanders were drubbed tonight.

Drubbing him on other surfaces is evidently no big deal.

I most assuredly will drub some sense into your head.

Together they could drub these fellows as their mothers should have.

He got no political credit for that from the voters as the Republicans drubbed his party in 1994.

I wasn't home enough when he was little to drub the temper out of him.

At rehearsal he used frequently to drub his former mistress.

If a woman not wedded came at me with weapons, I would drub her until she knew better of it.

Two American dictionaries, published months before, had been badly drubbed.

The women bawled and cursed in return, only to be drubbed.

He was drubbed for six runs and was gone by the second inning.

I've no manner of doubt that we can drub them, if you choose."

Laughing in spite of herself, she whirled about seeking another to drub.

Despite being drubbed by critics, "Deadline," the newspaper drama, did all right.

Therefore the Belgae would have to be drubbed once more.

The Socialists, who were drubbed in parliamentary elections last year, are already feeling more cheerful.

The Rangers were a team waiting to be drubbed, and met their fate passively at the front end of the third period.

They were drubbed by Cleveland, 51-0, last week, the most lopsided loss in the franchise's 57-year history.

His Presidential candidate was drubbed in the election.

Last year, after the Socialists were drubbed in parliamentary elections, he was forced to step down as party leader.

"1 Democrats drubbed their Republican opponents, 26-16, for the first of six consecutive wins.

And not if they also drub the Eagles, another drubbable team.

As for how the fighting is going, they say the Indians are taking a drubbing.

So far this month, emerging markets and commodities have taken a drubbing.

Internet stocks took a drubbing in April and have yet to recover.

As a result, their shares often took a drubbing.

And some stocks that have taken a drubbing are poised to recover.

It was also in Germany that pseudo-science recently took a drubbing.

He had an overseas campaign tour to show his foreign policy credentials and it took a drubbing on national television.

Paper stocks took a drubbing late in the session amid concern about new pollution rules for the industry.

Some specialty retailing stocks also took a drubbing, for a variety of reasons.

Several technology stocks took a drubbing yesterday, but Intel continued to rise strongly.

A number of clients, though, took a drubbing on Lucent Technologies.

Presidential allies took a drubbing in important cities.

In Gaza, where the fighting has dragged on for years, the Palestinians are once again taking a drubbing.

Prices of secondary corporate and tax-exempt municipal bonds also took a drubbing yesterday.

Mr. Macdonald's fall 2002 collection took a drubbing from critics, but no matter.

The conservatives took a drubbing in the 2000 parliamentary elections, losing control of the legislative body to the reformists.

Shares of China-related companies like China.com have taken a drubbing.

The environmentalist Greens also took a drubbing.

Some of Pirate's top investments took a drubbing recently, after a significant rise at the end of August.

An impromptu battle had erupted, in which the heavily outnumbered Romans had taken a drubbing.

The numbers show that he took a drubbing not only from the Internal Revenue Service but from the family dog as well.

He is right: banks took a drubbing all last year for pricing offerings too low, supposedly to make the stock price soar in first-day trading.

Dresdner shares, which also took a drubbing in recent weeks, increased 4 percent, to 48.95 euros, or $47.13.

Pronouns took a drubbing.

So while travelers are finding bargains, investors are taking a drubbing: the hotel industry lost an estimated $350 million last year.

Women are more worried about getting a drubbing - and they're right to be.

"Likely just broken bounds and got a drubbing," the Mouser called out, trotting after.

It looked like Poland was going to get a drubbing, but soon the Poles managed to regain control of the game.

The author and economist Jeffrey Sachs got a drubbing on Twitter for supporting the subsidy removal.

If I'm caught--which is fairly certain--I'll probably get a drubbing and spend the night in a cellar and be given my breakfast next morning and kicked out.

The square is also a poignant epitaph to China's hapless democracy movement, which got a drubbing from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in June 1989.

Kamsky already found that out in the eighth round of the tournament, when he got a drubbing at the hands of Judith Polgar, the 12-year-old Hungarian whiz.

Social Democrats got a drubbing in local elections in Hamburg on Sunday, and Mr. Schröder's own standing in the party is so low that he had to give up the party leadership.

When one cable TV presenter appearing on another cable TV presenter's show and getting a drubbing makes it to White House press questions, one might be tempted to think that people haven't got enough to worry about over here.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Big business took a bashing in 2011 from Occupy Wall Street protesters and others, but it's management consultants - the highly-paid fixers hired by companies in trouble - who get a drubbing in new TV series "House of Lies."