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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."