Sentence examples for a brutal start from inspiring English sources

"We're off to a brutal start this year, and Syria's the reason," Mr. Simon said.

"This is a brutal start for our presidency," his foreign minister, Miroslav Lajčák, admitted to journalists.

Playing for the first time since missing the cut at the British Open, Woods got off to a brutal start.

THIS year has got off to a brutal start in what some Mexicans call "the war without end" against their country's drug gangs.

It was only one game, of course, but it was a brutal start for the Yankees, who seemed as if they would rather be anywhere else.

Francona watched Ortiz struggle through a brutal start and sensed his frustration, so he decided to reiterate what Ortiz should know.

Big ups to second-year coach Danny Manning, who, despite a brutal 10-12 stortheo the season, takes the Golden Hurricanes to their first NCAA Tournament since 2003.

But Tennessee was in the middle of a brutal 1-4 start, one so bad, the team's owner said the Titans were being outcoached.

After their brutal start, they are thrilled to find a wounded victim.

Following the Dow Jones industrial average's big surge last week (See "Brutal Start, Bright Finish For October"), Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 2.7%, paring gains after soaring over 5% earlier in the trading day, to 14,344.37 points.

This was not an anomaly, one of those brutal starts the great ones pass off as "one of those games".