Lindros, the Philadelphia Flyers' center, hasn't played in the N.H.L. since he suffered his fourth concussion in a span of five months when checked brutally, but legally, by the Devils' Scott Stevens in Game 7 of the last year's Eastern Conference finals.
The result, unless handled properly by the mainstream political community, is a potential for violence that has already reared its head brutally on the European continent, and unless carefully checked will do so again.
Mrs. Obama has already had to check her brutally honest approach to talking about race.
Though lacking a superstar, the Blues surged behind strong checking, brutally efficient special teams — all Hitchcock trademarks — and record-setting goaltending.
Like other strongmen in the region, Colonel Qaddafi had mostly kept in check his country's various ethnic and tribal factions, either by brutally suppressing them or by co-opting them to fight for his government.
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Check, check, check, check, check.
A witty, sometimes brutally observant self, held in check by the need to pass herself off as conventionally and graciously female.
Elsewhere in the Arab world, Iranian proxies like Hezbollah will increasingly find themselves in the awkward position of being a resistance group purportedly fighting injustice while simultaneously cashing checks from a patron that is brutally suppressing justice at home.
Some dealers complain that Cohen has so brutally damaged their "handshake culture" that some sort of system of checks and balances will have to be introduced.
