Sentences with phrase «face agonizing»

But there are times when a pet's illness can exceed your resources and pet owners may face an agonizing choice.

But there is no reason to turn our backs on parents who face agonizing decisions on how to provide comfort to their schoolchildren who get caught up in vicious and life - altering attacks.

Now many private schools would face an agonizing choice: Give up a funding stream that they have come to depend on, or give in on basic questions of religious identity and school culture.

Doctors who treat patients with a severe and progressive respiratory disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) can face an agonizing treatment decision.

«Patients with rare lung disease face agonizing treatment dilemma.»

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

Throughout his book, Brogan provides a riveting account of the events in France before and after the revolution, the manner in which Tocqueville's family and friends responded to those events, and the psychological machinations within Tocqueville himself as he faced the agonizing transformation of his beloved France.

He solves the mystery, with someone else's confession filling in the details; and then, in his pride at having figured it all out, he plays God, takes control of the destiny of the reborn victim, and ends by precipitating consequences he will find difficult to live with, and facing an agonizing awareness of himself.

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One of the most agonizing choices an entrepreneur inevitably faces is whether or not to close their business.

Risks: let's face it — changing products or services in a B2B market can turn into an agonizing experience for buyers.

On the other hand, to avoid a constant succession of agonizing decisions, for the sake of consistency, and to keep ourselves honest and faithful in the face of constant temptation, a standard or system seems called for.

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

Is it both reasonable and moral to wait for the «cavalry to come over the hill,» so to speak, or must we face and make these agonizing decisions — these triage decisions — right now, as Hardin advocates?

My recent characterization of the book as irresponsible set off a storm of mail from Century readers, many of whom believed I had overlooked the agonizing decisions facing the terminally ill and their families.

Why should the individual undertake the agonizing process of facing and appropriating the otherness within himself, the multiplicity which he is, if the Godhead himself is understood and imaged as beyond such courageous integration of internal polarities?

The look on her face is familiar, her beautiful smile is made agonizing by the realizing of how easily she could have been saved — how many opportunities to rescue her passed by while rich, powerful men in other countries argued about politics and timing.

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When you're a new parent faced with a crying baby, you'll do almost anything to make the agonizing sounds stop.

This summer, city officials across America may ask themselves those questions as they face the same agonizing choice that New Yorkers faced.

It teaches you about yourself — how you handle the frustration of falling for the sixth time when trying Crane Pose, how well you resist the many excuses to stop when holding One - Legged Pidgeon Pose for 120 agonizing seconds, and whether you laugh or swear when you somehow manage to knee yourself in the face when getting into Plow Pose.

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His rough - hewn face and sturdy intensity are focused here on protecting his family, and his outward strength only makes his inward helplessness more agonizing, and Jessica Chastain meets his strength head - on, equally terrified by his transformation but determined to help him through.

Faces (1968, John Cassavetes): An agonizing study of infidelity from the father of American mavericks.

On being asked about the kind of choices players will be faced with, Whitta mentioned that players will be making «agonizing choices» and face some «bleak, sick stuff» in the game.

However, obtaining full and fair compensation can mean the difference between agonizing about the future and being able to face it with the knowledge that you have the resources to take care of your child.