He describes the 1972 campaign as a brutal lesson in realpolitik.

The Greeks have been given a brutal lesson and the Italians a firm warning.

What's more it was a match in which all of Gloucester's England hopefuls learnt some brutal lessons.

As a child, she not only learned brutal political lessons from his life, but also absorbed a wide familiarity with international affairs.

A brutal lesson, but a necessary one if the culture is ever to change.

Every time a tornado alights it teaches a brutal lesson in the vagaries of chance.

After a perilous start, the enterprise takes off, but not before the four learn some brutal lessons in debt collection.

Bobby Hoying is learning brutal lessons in his first season as the Philadelphia starter.

He had learned a brutal lesson as a small child, one that clearly had affected his character, his nature.

The catastrophe at the conclusion provides Vivian with a brutal but essential lesson in human behaviour.