"Our interviews with the participants regarding their upcoming votes often took the form of a tough 'cross-examination,' " he said.

Local hatred of Leibowitz grew uglier, as death threats were made against him after his tough cross-examination of alleged victim Victoria Price.

"You don't even need a tough cross-examination by an experienced prosecutor to 'get' someone like this; any law student or trainee would do," she said.

Arthur L. Liman, the chief counsel for the Senate committee, is to question Colonel North Wednesday in what is expected to be tough cross-examination.

Afterward, Mr. Kulcsar said he thought that the credibility of the prosecution witnesses could have been reduced significantly by tough cross-examination.

It was the toughest cross-examination he'd ever faced, and he was staring at the back of his wife's head.

This afternoon, Mr. Kgase held his own against a tough cross-examination from two of the defense attorneys.

The verdict in Texas came after a lawyer for Merck conducted a tough cross-examination of Carol Ernst, the widow who brought the lawsuit.

In a tough cross-examination, Samuel Buell, another prosecutor, challenged Ms. Adlong's statements.

After the trial, legal and psychiatric experts said he would have gained little with a tough cross-examination of Mr. Smith after the father had won the jury's heart.