That is where it really got to be bare-knuckled politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush v. Gore: U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Arguments on Florida Recount - December 11, 2000] Reference

And there were more bare-knuckled jabs between the two today.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007] Reference

The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ickes: Uncommitted Delegates Must Stay Uncommitted] Reference

A class ring was a talisman for success — and I was bare-knuckled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

And there are signs that the race is becoming a bare-knuckled affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Really Scares Rudy? It Could Be Rick Lazio, Secret Senate Favorite] Reference

But I'll believe that when I see her throw her first bare-knuckled punch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donald Craig Mitchell: A Thrilla in Wasilla? Daddy's Girl Versus Sarah's Boy] Reference

We need someone who can win in bare-knuckled politics to lead our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Adviser Wolfson: Obama's Claim That Bill Is Fibbing Is A "Right Wing Talking Point"] Reference

To say the comics took it blue and bare-knuckled would be an understatement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference

He is a dogged "bare-knuckled" street-fighter with a will of tempered steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheney's Revenge] Reference

The battle between Hillary and Obama is getting more bare-knuckled by the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points"] Reference

KAREEN WYNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A bare-knuckled battle for ballots.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 24, 2008] Reference

"This is about politics, plain and simple -- bare-knuckled politics of obstruction.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Slam GOP's Secret Holds On Obama Nominees] Reference

CROWLEY: It was that kind of year, bare-knuckled politics, nation - defining moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009] Reference

He has long supported the party but has tried to stay above bare-knuckled politicking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putin Pushes for Huge Victory] Reference

He has long supported the party, but has typically tried to stay above bare-knuckled politicking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite Lead,] Reference

ROMANS (voice-over): It's a bare-knuckled fight to the death for the American manufacturing worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2005] Reference

Virginia Senate race already was a volatile mix of bare-knuckled attacks and self-inflicted wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2006] Reference

Don Kass considers it a two-man race and says recent anonymous mailings suggest a bare-knuckled finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007] Reference

By the last half hour of the meal, the bare-knuckled young publisher of the New York Post was in tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Lachlan Flew the Coop: It Was Rupe] Reference

In fact, it is so bare-knuckled and low-ball that it is not implausible to imagine it rupturing the Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Ostertag: Clinton and Credentials: "There Will Be Blood Part 2?"] Reference

Political and media confrontation between Chavez and the opposition is vicious, personal and bare-knuckled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: Go to Venezuela, You Idiot!] Reference

And Baltimore is closer, in this respect, to the bare-knuckled politics of Chicago than it is to San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses] Reference

Each time, for every part of our plan, it was a fight -- a knock-down, drag-out, bare-knuckled fight to the finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice President Remarks At Center For National Policy] Reference

For nearly twenty years, I've been a bare-knuckled fighter for regular people and common-sense, progressive values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schurman: Why I'll Be a Better Governor for California Than Jerry Brown] Reference

The Obama team's detractors have long accused them of bare-knuckled, head-butting, Chicago-style political warfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's rusty machine politics] Reference

Text-only version Not surprisingly, this system outraged many, inspiring a bare-knuckled international war of essays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Course in America Is...] Reference

That could set the stage for a period marked by energy shortages, high prices and bare-knuckled competition for fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Officials See Limit] Reference

And if anything, he showed that he was a fighter and bare-knuckled enough to go toe-to-toe with Clinton/Rove politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Tensions Finally Boil Over Between Hillary And Obama] Reference

The sort of bigotry preached by some of the bare-knuckled white politicians a generation ago has fallen into disrepute.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘All Things Are Possible’] Reference

Leave it to the bare-knuckled Buchanan to make the compelling summation of Scheunemann's role in international affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey Dunn: Palin Advisor Is a Former BP Lobbyist & Foreign Agent] Reference

SADLER: Iran's bare-knuckled militancy of the early 1980s challenged U.S. warships escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers the Gulf.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2006] Reference

Even so, dispensing favors for political ends was a specialty of the old ward bosses, not to mention some bare-knuckled presidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Not Above Political Manipulation After All] Reference

The Clintons decided to go to war with "proponents of the status quo," as Mrs. Clinton put it in a bare-knuckled speech in May 1993.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obama Health-Care Express] Reference

Hallowed as it is, the Senate is as much a product of bare-knuckled, self-interested politics as last week's fight over military earmarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is the point on the Senate?] Reference

The bare-knuckled partisan politics of the 5-4 Supreme Court decision was never held up to the light of public scrutiny until years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Stiehm: What a Difference a President Makes] Reference