Neither, however, appears to be head and shoulders above two other Derby horses in this field who endured brutal, ground-losing trips.
What are we to make of the fact that the Salwa Judum, the brutal ground-clearing operation disguised as a "spontaneous" people's militia in Dantewada, was formally inaugurated in 2005, just days after the MoU with the Tatas was signed?
The Champions League is a brutal testing ground where so many things have to go right if teams like Celtic are to prosper.
Saulnier: Yeah, it's abrupt and brutal and grounded, and I think that's what makes it seem...you know, I don't break the rules of genre cinema just to do it, but I adhere to the world I created, and when you're governed by those laws, it's not pretty.
"Hasn't Finch been brutal down the ground?
"The third stage will be much brutal bombardment, the ground forces invasion, [but] I believe that we won't reach this stage.
Democrats are mobilizing to fight back against these ugly Republican tactics, but it will be brutal on the ground in the most competitive states and races.
While the French were leading the world to confront Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi's brutal air and ground attacks, the indecisive Obama administration was "weighing their options and discussing the issue" as one official said.
One wants to believe that pro-football decisions are made on cynical brutal, pro-football grounds, i.e. that the coaches would take a pentagram-drawing Satanist if he drew pentagrams that moved the football.
McCullum has built a career on the former school of thought, all flashing drives through cover and brutal bunts down the ground.
