Sentences with phrase «wrenching when»

I think it is heart - wrenching when they must be retired, because these dogs would work till the end of their lives if it was up to them!

Watching Luke win over all the convicts, including the previous leader played by Kennedy is stunning, yet gut - wrenching when offset by the scenes with the guards who are hell bent on getting Luke to understand his place.

It's always heart wrenching when our pets are not well.

State leaders lost a chance to make this transition less wrenching when they used federal «stimulus» money to sustain existing levels of spending, rather than to ease the changes that must come now.

It can be emotionally wrenching when your baby's delivery resembles a medical school film instead of the beautiful, transcendent videos from your childbirth class.

It is absolutely gut - wrenching when, for the variety of reasons that interfere in these stories, it falls apart.

It's even more gut - wrenching when put into the context that the 1986 original aired on Saturday mornings and heavily targeted elementary school children.

There can be a virtuous kind of dullness of heart; a tight - lipped, efficient, decent, and unimaginative refusal to let facts be facts or, rather, a so contented existence within one's chosen and familiar world of fact that equally obvious but unexpected facts are dismissed with the same brisk impatience as a good mechanic reveals when a bumbling apprentice hands him a wrench when he needs the pliers.

See this question too How important is it to use a real flare nut wrench when removing the fuel line on an old Ford tractor?

It's important to use a torque wrench when putting the wheel on, because without it, you run the risk of warping your rim.

You'll often see tire shops employ torque wrenches when putting a wheel back onto a vehicle.

Brake lines can be difficult to remove; we recommend always using a line wrench rather than a standard open - end wrench when working with brake lines.

Why use the wrench when you can just make a defiler using a sledgehammer and a fire axe?

Why use a wrench when you can use a wrench wrapped in electrified barb wire Dying Light's sizeable crafting system enables players to create a slew of new, more potent weapons and equipment, as well as specialized ammunition

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The most gut - wrenching part of the AMA comes when two teen neighbors who had just joined the Army were sent closer to the site of the explosion:

When failing businesses in the industry cut corners to save money, the consequences for the families of donors can be emotionally wrenching.

«I also got a glimpse of how gut - wrenching it must be when someone piles up your belongings on the curb and you don't know where your family is going to sleep that night,» he adds.

When you're raging pissed and throwing a socket wrench at the neighbor's kids, you are not self - conscious about your state of anger.

When reality throws a wrench in your progress, choose to see that obstacle as real.

Donald Trump, who hosted the business competition reality show for seven seasons since it debuted in 2004, threw a wrench in the works when he announced his presidential run in June 2015.

«That gut - wrenching, heartbreaking statement is a reminder of how we felt in the wake of Sandy Hook on December 14 a year and a half ago when it seemed like we were on the verge of potentially legislation that would stop the madness and end the insanity that has killed too many young people, thousands, tens of thousands since Sandy Hook,» Blumenthal said.

Now a new generation is poised to take charge — at an absolutely pivotal moment, when the global construction industry is undergoing sudden, wrenching change.

For Quincy Apparel co-founder Christina Wallace, the most gut - wrenching moments were in the 24 hours before payroll, when she didn't know whether she could pay her employees.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Just when you think we have reached some measure of peace and stability, someone throws a wrench into things.

Before the end of April, when the market started its gut - wrenching descent, «the combination of return generation and risk diversification was part of a broader virtuous circle for fixed income, which also included significant inflows to the asset class and direct support from central banks,» El - Erian writes at the start of his viewpoint, noting that in addition to delivering solid returns with lower volatility relative to stocks, the inclusion of fixed income in diversified asset allocations also helped to reduce overall portfolio risk.

You never know when your car's brakes are going to break or your basement's going to flood, or you have some other unexpected expense that throws a wrench into things financially.

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

on the other hand there have been time when a person's soul was wrenched with fear because of lack of assurance of eternity.

My Born - again Christian neice had the heart - wrenching decision to abort when she found out she had breast cancer during pregnancy.

Even today, we are regularly reminded, it is the most fanatic and frantic born - againers who most disrupt the families of Jews and other outsiders when they wrench the young out of context to bring them to a new master.

Niebuhr didn't mean to be funny when he said that Lutheranism evinces a «mystical fear of action,» but for a Lutheran student of theology that's gut «wrenching humor» which, upon further thought, is kind of sad.

In particular it binds humanity and nature when these have been wrenched apart by technology and mechanistic thinking.

When discussing homosexuality, Christians should seek to create «gut - wrenching, jaw - clenching, hand - over-your-mouth, «I feel dirty» moral outrage» regarding gay and lesbian people seeking to get married.

From the moment when, as I have said, the phyletic strands began to reach towards one another, weaving the first outlines of the Noosphere, a new matrix, co-extensive with the whole human group, was formed about the newly - born human child — a matrix out of which he can not be wrenched without incurring mutilation in the most physical core of his biological being.

In Charles Dickens» perennial classic, A Christmas Carol, the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge — «a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner» — is redeemed only when he is drawn away from his narrow self - interest and obsession with money.

Leaving was heart wrenching, and when we sat down to tell the other elders about our decision, I ugly cried.

Speaking to the Palestinians, she said, «When you can look at this act with same gut wrenching horror as a six year old who just lost his teacher, you will be ready to make a real peace.»

«Whether you feel a wrenching anguish or simply a kind of distracted listlessness, the middle looks unfamiliar when you get there,» writes Winner.

For the most part I make the same shake every single morning, but some days there are sad mornings when I discover we have no bananas and that really throws a wrench into things.

When baseball puts a wrench in their Sunday am pancakes they get them for dinner!

It made me so sad to read, as I can completely relate to the heart - wrenching experience of losing an ailing cat that was more like my little girl than a mere pet (our kitty had just hit her 16th birthday when she died of kidney failure - that we'd been working hard to treat - and hyperthyroidism).

Gluten - free flours work so differently than standard wheat flour and when you throw in the monkey - wrench of not using eggs, everything changes yet again.

The boss cussed at me for a minute, and when that didn't work, he grabbed a hammer, stomped downstairs, and whacked away at the handle of the wrench.

A 9 - 4 record with three tight, gut - wrenching losses (all of which took place when Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams was hurt) felt like an intolerable disappointment.

The only disturbing event of the day for the Pirates was the temporary disablement of their fine young left fielder, Bob Skinner, who wrenched his back slightly and suffered minor cuts and abrasions when he ricocheted off the fence while taking an earlier bid for a home run away from Aaron.

A monkey wrench was just thrown the Bucks» way when I was about half way done with this article.

They tell somber tales of poles wrenched from their hands by giant dourado and listen politely but unconvinced when the advantage of the spinning reel's drag is explained and demonstrated.

In 1962, when the Skyway pushed the Joe Harris store clear off the Embarcadero and into its roomy, modern location at Second Street and Howard, it was a wrench for northern California yachtsmen.

In the beginning when my baby son clung to me and cried at the end of our visits it was gut wrenching.