Sentences with phrase «faced wrenching»

Others faced wrenching choices when they arrived at shelters that would not allow animals.

After the far right wing of the GOP out - rebelled the notoriously rebellious president, foiling his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump now faces a wrenching choice as he tries to rule the fractious GOP: retrenchment or realignment.

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star as a childless Australian couple who face wrenching decisions after finding an infant girl on a boat that washes ashore.

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The changes that Japan would face were going to be wrenching, and even under the best of circumstances, they would be politically difficult to manage.

When we are faced with choices, sometimes they can be gut wrenching.

But, please, don't be so full of it that you deny that valleys exist (or that the journey back to the mountaintop can be a gut - wrenching climb even without people at the top kicking rocks in your face.)

In that wrenching time, ancient Israel faced the temptation of denial — the pretense that there had been no loss — and it faced the temptation of despair — the inability to see any way out.

To count these moral costs requires us to take several heart - wrenching steps away from the names, faces and complicated narratives of those who might benefit from ESCR.

For example, I have faced many heart wrenching challenges in which I wished God would «just kill me now.»

As I mentioned in a previous comment thread on another article, Jordan going down really threw a monkey wrench into how the team planned to face the season.

At least Drysdale was not around to suffer the wrenching experience of facing Aaron at this stage in his career.

However, facing a 5 - 3 Red Raiders squad who took down Oklahoma two weeks ago has thrown a wrench in the betting public's psyche.

Teams often face a crossroads after a heart - wrenching loss on the biggest stage.

His latest decision to wrench safety from the jaws of disaster came with the selection of January signing Mohamed Elneny to face Tottenham Hotspur in what was arguably the biggest north London derby clash in the history of the fixture, and what would also be the Egyptian's first Premier League start.

Life can throw children heart - wrenching obstacles — the death of a parent and dyslexia, for example — but two teens with Triangle roots have reached deep into themselves to share stories of how they faced these trials and move forward to embrace their future.

You broads who make up Dr. Amys fan girl base have no clue how it feels to live on the fringe of society and make difficult, heart wrenching decisions that fly in the face of every convention currently in practice in our society.

Ok, maybe it's the postpartum stew of hormones wreaking havoc on our emotions, but sometimes, just looking at my newborn's little face would trigger a crying outburst previously reserved for such heart - wrenching events as getting dumped or having my favorite ice cream flavor discontinued.

Summer is just around the corner and while both kids and parents anxiously await a much - needed vacation, there are a few others who need something more... a break from the heart - wrenching challenges they face every day as a result of a family member who is battling,

So they ultimately face two wrenching moments of change: one when the UK goes from EU membership to the transitional arrangement, and another when they go from the transitional arrangement to the final deal.

As the demonstrators were rallying on Varick Street, Trump was busy at the White House throwing a huge wrench into the discussions about immigration and a fix for the dangers facing the nearly million residents in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program by referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as «shithole countries.»

Legislator after legislator rose Tuesday to celebrate the fact that representatives from city and suburbs, Democrats and Republicans, had united to settle one of the most wrenching issues they had faced.

The world faces a wave of aging, and with it wrenching social and economic changes.

She had to experience gut - wrenching fear and confront her demons, get drugged in a field of poppies and wake up with her first real hangover, and face up to a hero she emulated not living up to her expectations.

Over the course of the series, as Voldemort gathered in power and corporeality, his wrenched, Medusa - like face eventually growing a body (though oddly losing its nose), the actor started to fill out the character with sharp, indelible gestures, a flick of the wrist, a twist of the mouth.

As a result, once the story really begins, the emotional upheaval strikes like a wrench to the face.

To play a profoundly depressed suburban mother — her face a mask of numbness yet somehow quite expressive — the actor drew from her own experience with the disease, digging deep in several scenes that are as gut - wrenching as they are difficult to watch.

From there, Watney must not only come to grips with the most dire situation any astronaut has ever faced, but also mend his own gory abdominal wound in a scene that is «Prometheus» - level in its gut - wrenching body horror.

Ronan is excellent as a young woman faced with a wrenching choice.

And suddenly, the dealer is facing the same wrenching decisions as his clients.

But the power of that final face - off is so wrenching that none of these cavils matter very much.

Spanning decades, this epic love story captures the enduring power of our first true love, and the wrenching choices we face when confronted with elusive second chances.

Hours after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, student Morgan Williams sent a wrenching tweet — a small glimpse of the trauma that this community faces:

Education reformers faced with failing schools and districts tend toward one of two camps: The Incrementalists hold that meaningful improvement can only happen slowly, with soul - wrenching culture change leading to instructional change and eventual student success.

Most families have a heart - wrenching reaction to facing that the precious child they love will forever be «different» from most children.

To truly understand some of the difficult, if not heart wrenching, struggles facing students, check out Sarah's site.

The one concern with using more than a couple of adapters is that the possibility of introducing a significant change in the angle between the torque wrench and bolt / nut face becomes more plausible.

It was «a compelling, heart - wrenching story about the difficult choices women face,» wrote reviewer Susan Schwartzman back in April 2010, and a «bittersweet, stirring debut.»

Mother and daughter faced a series of wrenching moral questions: When does death cease being a curse and become a blessing?

Here is what they say about the book that puts a real face to the name Typhoid Mary: Heart - wrenching and dark but I was unable to put the book down.

They can not tell you what is wrong and seeing the sad face of a sick puppy is heart wrenching.

That's why when we're faced with the decision of whether or not to euthanize our pet, it becomes a heart - wrenching experience.

All too often, even the best pet owners can find themselves financially unprepared to do what is needed to save their pet and thereby facing a heart - wrenching decision if they can not afford treatment.

Rehome — Sometimes we are faced with the heart wrenching decision to give up a pet.

What you have to keep in mind when faced with these heart wrenching stories is the good that will be done for each animal — the homes that will be found for the ownerless animals, the reuniting of lost pets with tearful owners, and the healing of animals that are brought in injured.

As integral members of our family, we want to make sure they are happy and healthy for as long as possible, but, there comes a time, when their quality of life begins to decline and we are faced with the heart wrenching dilema of having to decide when it is time to let them go.

«If you don't have insurance or any type of fallback position, you're faced with a gut - wrenching decision.»

You're only able to carry so much loot, though, and thus eventually must come face to face with the harsh reality of having to give up some loot, a heart wrenching task when you've sunk countless into the game and have an armory of Legendary items, each seemingly more awesome than the last but not quite as awesome as the new helmet you just found.

You can see the woe in Midas» face as he's being wrenched across the rocky ground to his inevitable doom.

See the intensity on a player's face as he nails a game - winner, or the frustration of a heart - wrenching loss.

Buyers and practitioners in the data market have faced a gut - wrenching choice: work with big data and tolerate the latency of batch - mode processing, or work interactively with relatively small data sets.