Miles and Casey needed stitches in facial gashes in a bruising contest and Lucas suffered a suspected broken arm.

That bruising contest depleted his resources but left plenty of ammunition for his well-financed Republican challenger in the November election.

He faced a bruising contest against former Cook County state's attorney Edward Hanrahan, but was elected by 8,000 votes.

Jones was priming for a rematch in 1972, but Belcher didn't have the stomach for another bruising contest and pulled out of the race in June.

After the bruising contest, at least one candidate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, indicated his presidential bid may be over.

Leaders emerge from a bruising contest.

Nowhere is Nigeria's democracy in deeper trouble than at the state and local levels, where the most bruising contests for power take place in a bloody, winner-take-all system in which the voters are all but superfluous.

He won the nomination in 1962 in a bruising contest and lost the November election to the incumbent, Gov. John Dempsey.

Ensign and Reid developed a fairly good relationship, despite their bruising 1998 contest.

He and Reid have a very good relationship, despite their bruising contest in 1998.