Its arena is harsh wilderness.
Reality is biting English rugby this autumn, the reality of how harsh and unforgiving an arena international rugby is.
The authorities have concluded that none of the guns were loaded and that Crittenton did not use his in a threatening matter Stern reserved his harshest words for Arenas, a three-time All-Star and onetime media darling who until now had been known as a playful, harmless eccentric.
Political analysts debated tonight whether the new charges, forcing an already harsh political dispute into the legal arena, would harm Mr. Soong's candidacy or backfire on the Nationalists.
In the face of this decay some have become strident, harsh or unhearing; others have retreated from the public arena.
Some want to hold on to the numerical grading system: "The traditional, harsh numerical grading is still needed in the international arenas, when competing, for example, with Asian peers.
Mr. Corgan laughed as the crowd mimicked his arena-rock gesturing, scornful of the reflexes the harsh music triggered.
For a while he stayed with a friend, but soon found himself sleeping on park benches and in Montreal's ubiquitous outdoor public hockey arenas, camping out in the penalty box to block the harsh winds.
In the crowded urban favelas, flying a kite (or pipa) is more than a leisurely escape from harsh living conditions; it's also a form of battle, with the sky an arena.
We did not weigh flies at the onset of the experiment, because this would have required a harsher anesthesia (e.g. CO2), which decreases the performance of flies in the flight arena.
