Ponting certainly has copped his share of bouncers on this tour – in these pages and others – and was even accused by one commentator in the wake of the needlessly rancorous first Test in Cardiff of being "duplicitous" and possessing not "a shred of moral authority".
When the debate gets rancorous, they tend to suffer more than most.
Those articles became particularly rancorous when high-profile public sector or charitable organisation clients were involved, and Wolff Olins did work for both.
One says he moved to Germany a few years ago, where the mood is less rancorous, and his friends when they visit say they're considering leaving America as well.
In short, both sides have set in train legal strategies which could end up compromising the legitimacy of the other side's victory.The Florida voteThe issue that lies at the heart of these rancorous exchanges is the vote in Palm Beach county.
A rancorous campaign for the Federal Reserve's top job has disturbed the normal August sleepiness in Washington, DC.
He presents Baghdad under the caliphs as a place of passionate, rancorous debate between faiths (at least three of them) and reason, in which faith had the upper hand but reason could still fight its corner, and even the most purist advocates of faith made some allowance for Hellenic rationality.
THE rancorous feud between India's Ambani brothers, Mukesh and Anil, has reached a new low.
The rancorous circumstances of the deal's demise have therefore spread far.
If a full treaty is now drawn up in an inter-governmental conference, and if it is ratified by all 27 members which remain big ifs the EU can at last put behind it a rancorous decade of squabbling over its institutions.
Now summoned to account for this "humiliation" by Ed Balls, his Labour opposite number, Mr Osborne anticipated one of his bleakest days in politics.Yet, in predictably rancorous debate, Mr Balls struggled to lay a glove on him.
