Sentences with phrase «of agonising»

So instead of agonising over every little detail, save time by letting experts point out exactly where you might be going wrong.

After years of agonising negotiation, some 170 nations, with vastly differing economic and political interests, reached an agreement that will require them to transform their economies in the interests of the global environment.

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

As someone who could play many of the original levels with their eyes closed after hours of agonising practice - shh, I had books too, ok?

Although a repetitive structure and a sense of agonising futility conspire to undermine the vital lessons it has to teach...

It comes at the end of a long night, and it's the one most keenly anticipated by the producers themselves who now have their moment of glory as the people for whom this award represents years of agonising work and instances of what Jerry Maguire called the «up - at - dawn pride - swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about».

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..

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

By that time inadequate controls meant infected beef had been in the human food chain for years, and there were fears of a mass plague of agonising, invariably fatal vCJD.

Welcome to the messy world of agonising, late - night post-election negotiations.

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.

Therefore, Kai Buhari underscores the masses» period of agonising and warning to Buhari.

«Michael has been like a cat on a hot tin roof, locked in an internal struggle of agonising proportions.

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

Sometimes a situation doesn't need lots of agonised prayer, bad plumbing is bad plumbing whether the plumber is a Christian or not!

More importantly, it was something that I played with my other half, as both of us agonised over the choices to be made (and, for the record, she chose poorly.

Rothko's mighty, molten expanses of agonised colour suck you in, half - drown you, and leave you gasping.

Not exact matches

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

Furthermore, those approaches, sometimes found in Catholicism, which tend to depict God's coming as Man and his agonised death on the Cross as more than was strictly necessary or as under the primary control of evil are insufficient for meeting the modern challenge of allowing God to be God.

A lot of people agonise over the way a particular church may define «self» and «other» — but it seems to me that both they and whichever church are rather missing the point.

It was Cardinal Emmett Carter of Toronto who after he had hesitated and agonised for months finally gathered him in:

The next paragraph drove home the agonising dilemma facing the followers of a movement which has always been profoundly loyal to the papacy, most of whom were undoubtedly hoping for the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope John Paul's successor: «TheVatican ruling, issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, indicates that the Pope accepts that there is substance to the charges against Fr Maciel, some of which date back to the 1940s.»

An agonising portrayal of Jesus» final days, redeemed by a fleeting glimpse of Resurrection.

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

Its uniqueness is sharply illustrated by the sign which it used, at first that of a cross, and then of a man dying crucified on the cross, sometimes transformed, reigning triumphant from it, sometimes shown dying an agonised death.

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.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

In a Swiss valley in 1517 another Catholic priest was agonising about the pilgrimages, relics and Indulgences which brought so much business and so much worldliness and apparent abuse of the Gospel, to the Benedictine monastery of Einsiedeln where he ministered.

A particularly agonising problem is the presence of evil in the world.

Sometimes real - life stuff gets in the way and the girl can not afford to spend hours in the kitchen agonising over the consistency of her lemon curd or the level of sweetness of her chocolate cake.

That is a joke of a comment.I wonder what Arsenal fans can defend him apart from his stats when he's at his best.He is average when at his best and very very average at his worst.Stop overhyping this guy.Just so you know I'm not scared to say it like people here.I rank him with the likes of Chamakh and other average strikers who are just being given world class service upfront.I wish he never plays for Arsenal again and its agonising when I ever see him play.France is going out to be honest and it ai nt because he isnt gonna play.

Get a Rooney Hair Transplant Sat in the stands week in week out watching another agonising 90 minutes of sub-standard football will set your heart racing and stress levels through the roof.

An agonising deflection off the chest of Koscielny took it back across goal though, and the shot - stopper was left totally helpless.

It has been a painful time as we agonise over the mistakes made against Monaco that leave us teetering on the brink of yet another early Champions League exit.

Apart from the very few masochists, like those above two unfortunates who love being shafted by Wenger and the regime, the rest of us are in despair, wondering how the club we adore can be intent on committing suicide and deliberately agonising us fans by not sacking Wenger all these underperforming years.

Mourinho's men have won the trophy with three games to spare, and will finish the season on 92 points if they win their remaining fixtures — just an agonising three points off the points record of 95 set by themselves in their title - winning 2004 - 05 campaign.

«This has been the toughest decision of my life and one which both me and my family have agonised over for a good deal of time,» he said.

Competing after Rowlands on the slopestyle course was Team GB's Cal Sandieson, who finished an agonising fourth in the men's event with a best score of 81.00, five marks off the bronze medal position.

Within two minutes of the first whistle, Joe Hart was scrambling to foil Liverpool's attacking might and by the 24th, he had dropped to his knees - fist clenched, eyes closed as he let out an agonising scream.

His Midas touch in the competition was in evidence again after the shock selection of Oscar, who he admitted the club might not have convinced to join them had they not ended their agonising wait for Champions League glory.

True to form, West Ham have been scheduled to play every other team in the league two times during the season but despite this certainty there is plenty of opportunity to agonise over the order of games.

Real have beaten Atletico in each of the past three seasons in the Champions League, including twice in the final in agonising circumstances for the red and white part of Madrid in 2014 and 2016.

2) Leg cramps: a few nights ago I was woken up by the agonising pain of my calf seizing up.

We had a lot of initial problems with latching, jaundice, agonising, toe curling pain, and I had mastitis a couple of times.

However, it was a holiday and no stores were open to buy another test, so we had an agonising night of not - quite - knowing.

«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.

We read the medal citations in the papers, but this is the unsanitised version - the reality of crouching in a slit trench under mortar attack, the agonising wait for helicopter support, the heat, the thirst, the dirt, the monotony of ration packs, the fear, the chilling sounds and smell of war.The theme of the book is set by Fergusson's intricate account of the Siege of Now Zad.

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.

Every week we are seeing new examples of serious failures of care, unacceptable delays for treatment, cancelled operations, and agonising waiting times for people suffering from mental health problems.

Shapps said concerns about the uncertainty of a Leave vote had settled what he described as an «agonising choice».