Their job would be simple: take some twenty-eight hundred fractious longhorns safely across thirteen hundred miles of the west's most bruising country.

A capital seat, good, even hands, and the most bruising little rider you ever saw!

Worth noting that the city was the site of one of the North's most bruising anti-integration battles.

The Democratic leaders have acknowledged that they face a tough floor fight and that the most bruising part of the battle may come from inside their own party.

A Clinton senatorial campaign is likely to be the most bruising and high-stakes race of 2006.

Eagles, 15-12 Pittsburgh (6-3) at Tennessee (5-4) This promises to be one of the most bruising games of the year.

President Reagan's support of the contras produced some of his Administration's most bruising battles with Congress.

The title role in "Elektra," perhaps the most bruising in the canon, attracts her, too, but not now.

Their jobs have not migrated overseas, but the employees just concluded their most bruising battle ever over wages.

There was only the most fearful bruising, as if he had been repeatedly kicked and punched.