1.   Four marriages crumbled under the punishing pace.

2.   Patrick Durando, a publishing company executive who was maintaining a punishing pace on his treadmill, below a row of televisions, agreed.

3.   The Germans have made no secret of their plan to try to exploit their bigger size and impose a punishing pace.

4.   With a half dozen kilometers to go, three runners were ahead with Tosa setting a punishing pace.

5.   But now that the coronation is finally at hand, Dole must turn his attention to the punishing pace of the run against Clinton.