Sentences with word «agonising»

Instead of agonising over whether machines can ever be conscious like humans, he aims to demonstrate specific, limited examples of consciousness.

Liberal Democrat activists arrived in Harrogate yesterday to begin their annual round of agonising over proportional representation and cannabis legalisation - only to be told they might be wasting their time.

They fight three - cornered contests, often bitterly, and do a lot of agonising about preference swaps, coalitions and so on.

Within the club he is notorious for agonising for ages — unable to make up his mind — until it is too late.

They'd then send a urine sample off to the lab with a further agonising wait for up to 10 days before the results came back.»

What was the point in agonising over balance sheets and tedious analyses of risks — and why bother worrying about dizzying levels of debt and exposure to potential defaults — when all good things come to those who are optimistic enough to expect them?»

More than 2.5 million dogs spend their whole lives in barren metal cages on those farms before suffering agonising deaths by electrocution or hanging.

But the weirdest part of all this, is as agonising as it is, and laughable, this is something that just doesn't happen all that often, and I don't know about you, but I no longer know if I even want it to end!

the Witcher 2 shows the by making each and every decision a tough, agonising choice with no clear right and wrong.

The children fell ill within minutes of eating a meal of rice and potato curry in their one - room school on Tuesday, vomiting and convulsing with agonising stomach cramps.

It can take up to two months to pull it out, inch by agonising inch, during which time it may be impossible to walk.

«The decision to go to war in Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power in a coalition of over 40 countries led by the USA, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising decision I took in 10 years as British prime minister.

Hummels has always be loyal to Dortmund and has admitted he is still agonising about whether to move on or not.

Chester - born James Bond star Daniel Craig is branded a «twep» by QUENTIN LETTS after agonising in an interview about 007's political correctness

If we use «body» and «soul» in these senses we do not agonise over how they are related; and what would it mean to say that the soul is the form of the body?

There's no sprint button, which can be almost agonising when you have to traipse back and forth across the hospital, looking for the next section required to trigger the story, which can be difficult to find as the game is crap at directing players unless you hit the tip key.

And after nine agonising years in development, The Last Guardian will finally make its way to the PlayStation 4 this year.

Because those knuckles are in agonising pain from where you punched the wall in furious anger; and the broken glass covering your room is actually from your expensive HDTV that, in a split - second of madness, you decided to throw your 360 controller straight into.

But that's not all as patient players can line up multiple kills with a single bullet, while the more savage gamer can choose to shatter a man's kneecap with a well placed round and then wait for the victim's agonised screams to draw another unsuspecting soldier into the open.

Most brain (cerebral) aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst (rupture) leading to a very serious haemorrhage which can cause extensive brain damage and symptoms of agonising headache, pain on looking at light, neck stiffness, vomiting, etc..

If you're spending hours agonising about how you look, is your date doing the same?

When she told me on Tuesday I jumped on line and spent too long agonising over when I should fly there and back — before my very eyes the fare suddenly jumped to $ 598.

One of the most agonising moments of the hustings (apart from Smith getting booed for calling out anti-Semitism) was the section on the advancement of women.

I spent weeks agonising over our data - locking model, only to change it — twice — since we began early access on Steam.

Fleets can take anything from 4 hours to an entire agonising day to complete a hyperspace jump, and games play out over the course of a few weeks.

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She had been catapulted into the Treasury following a misunderstanding, as David Cameron thought she had experience of the City; that inexperience appeared to tell in what must go down as the most cringeworthy, agonising political TV interview of 2012.

Bombach is intuitive as she tracks each step of Murad's agonising journey — only a woman director could surely have directed this powerful film so eloquently.

We must not drop the ball just as we reach the final, agonising inch.

Sometimes a situation doesn't need lots of agonised prayer, bad plumbing... More

Agonising stuff... the points are all that matters in this one... no one really at their best today... bellerin probably best for us today... wenger has to teach these players how to press though if he wants to move to the next level...

All our main rivals are well stocked in that department, so we're not seeing the usual protagonists swipe him, while Wenger agonises over which pennies he will part with.

Wales had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1958 World Cup and had accumulated a string of agonising near - misses, most notably when Paul Bodin hit the bar with a penalty in a qualifying match against Romania in November 1993 that could have sent the Welsh to the World Cup.

Whats more agonising for them Spuds fans than the hope of Champions League Football killed by Arsenal!

The loss on a claim is not simply the settlement it is the management time investigating the position, putting together the defence and the internal agonising over how and why the event ever happened.

Mandelson tells the Times today he had been part of a «raw» and «fairly agonised» debate about Brown's leadership.

If you haven't discussed your favourite foods, choose a restaurant with a lot of choice on the menu, so that you don't leave your partner agonising over what they can eat when you should be concentrating on each other.

Traditionally, parents have often agonised over how much time their kids spent using gadgets but as technology develops, an overwhelming proportion of parents now recognise the necessity of kids getting to grips with it, and being comfortable in a digital world.

The thought that he was suffering would send me in to a panic, I had a constant nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach, I would day dream about seeing him tied up outside a shop and then agonise about what I would do if that happened, should I just steel him back, follow him and find out where he lived, phone the police, phone my husband, what would I do if his new family loved him too?

On the back of Thursday's agonising defeat to FC Twente in the Europa League, Fulham entertain a Liverpool side whose last competitive defeat occurred almost three months prior to Monday's Craven Cottage encounter.

However, it's a myth to suppose that the political tasks are really that different — just as many Tories agonise too much over whether to shift to the Right, to see off UKIP, or veer left to capture the centre ground.

Why agonise whether Ryanair (RYA: ID) is really worth its estimated 17.2 P / E, for example, when Delta (DAL: US), United Continental (UAL: US) & American (AAL: US) trade on an average 6.6 P / E?!

After a long and agonising illness borne without complaint, he died on 15 March 1947, embracing the crucifix.

If you're anything like me — with a cluttered and distracted mind — it can seem agonising.

The Psalms with their frequent agonising calls of man to God became a favourite source of expression.

There had been little time for deeply depressive agonising in the months since November of 1517; and there had been a good deal for Luther to be pleased with.