It's a wrenching decision.

And it was gut wrenching.

The photographs of martyrs are heart wrenching.

Both kept their countries calm during wrenching transitions.

I'll offer you radiant, stupefying, awful, gut wrenching.

But not only political and economic transitions are wrenching.

ROMEO Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.

Seeing a new born common dolphin, umbilicus still attached was wrenching.

So fisheries worldwide are due for wrenching changes in the near future.

Gut wrenching images of unspeakable, indiscriminate violence against civilians have shocked the world.

Though the facts of both cases are heart wrenching, their importance extends beyond the courtroom.

The scene was intense and heart wrenching, as the newly widowed bride shrieked with horror.

In the process we have all learned certain lessons, some in a very wrenching fashion.

Since communism's fall, the nations of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone exhilarating yet wrenching transitions.

Whether Greece, Spain, and other euro zone members will accept such wrenching adjustments remains to be seen.

I am speaking of the gut wrenching, life threatening poverty of living on less than 1 per day.

The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country s rapid economic modernization.

If taken to extremes, Russian society s response to its wrenching modernization could degenerate into a nationalist revolution led by xenophobes.

That is not like merely dragging a load with one's hands, it is like wrenching it from some one else.'

The longer this is deferred, the more wrenching the ultimate policy adjustment and its consequences for growth and employment will be.

Watching him lie helpless and speechless, afflicted by so many ailments, not to speak of bedsores, was a heart wrenching experience.

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As anyone following developments in our region is aware, this is a painful and heart wrenching moment for the Israeli people.

A powerful president, however, is not necessarily wrong for Ukraine. In our wrenching postcommunist transition, it is essential that a government can act decisively.

There is rubble and the gut wrenching smell of decaying corpses. The rats have it good the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat.

Likewise, transfers to state and local governments, which have limited constitutional scope to borrow, would help slow down wrenching layoffs of teachers, firefighters, and police.

America has now suffered around 30 shooting massacres over the past 30 years, including this year s deadly dozen each is a gut wrenching tragedy for many families.

Such wrenching sights are typically accompanied by the pungent odor of a sewage system that is more a problem than a solution, especially during the rainy season.

Reports on the revolting policy of quot ethnic cleansing quot and indiscriminate massacres of women and children strike a familiar, mind wrenching note in our collective psyche.

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.

With two chairs, so that two people can sit, and really see each other without wrenching their necks trying to catch a glimpse in the mirror behind the lunch counter.

And as that woman took comfort in her robot companion, I didn't find it amazing I found it one of the most wrenching, complicated moments in my 15 years of work.

I grew up with the sounds of war the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the wailing warning sounds of sirens.

Ukraine s break with Russia was perhaps the most wrenching, both for those in the Kremlin nostalgic for imperial control and for ordinary Russians who see Ukraine as the wellspring of Russian civilization.

We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

This region receives information from all the senses and in turn controls the various networks that inspire the speeding heart, sweaty palms, wrenching stomach, muscle tension and hormonal floods that characterize being afraid.

The country s wrenching political struggle over the past several years has, at bottom, concerned what will happen after the ailing 81 year old king s reign, now at 63 years, comes to an end.

To start the discussion, we played a little game of word association with the term terrorist and the responses were ISIS, violence against civilians, heart wrenching, darkness, mass murder, fear mongering, and politics.

So for the longest time, all I would do is recall the memory of this person over and over again, wishing that I could get rid of that gut wrenching, visceral blah feeling.

The murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh two and a half years ago by an Islamist assassin has incited a wrenching debate about the country s entrenched culture of tolerance and easy access for asylum seekers.

While the US Federal Reserve Board s first round of quantitative easing was effective in ending a wrenching crisis, the second round has done little to sustain meaningful recovery in the labor market and the real economy.

Just as gut wrenching was the fact that the Jamaican track team failed to place in the 4 x 100 metre final, as Bolt pulled up during the last leg, unable to carry on due to injury.

Likewise, transfers to state and local governments, which have limited constitutional scope to borrow, would help slow down wrenching layoffs of teachers, firefighters, and police. Lastly, extending unemployment insurance in the wake of a once in a half century crisis should be a no brainer.

Government spending especially on unemployment benefits, aid to states, and some construction projects probably helped avert a more wrenching downturn, but continued red ink worries households, which are also trying to rebuild savings and reduce debt after a spending binge. The regulatory uncertainty created in areas such as health care makes it difficult not only for the health care industry to make long term investment decisions, but also for businesses to make long term hires.