Bee stings can be very painful.

Economic reforms may entail pain, but the pain the poor must bear should not be minimized. Why were billions of dollars available to bail out banks, but a few million dollars for food and fuel subsidies for Indonesia s poor could not be spared?

Economic reforms may entail pain, but the pain the poor must bear should not be minimized.

Demographic changes can be equally painful for a society.

On the contrary, austerity was perhaps too successful (and painful).

Reform continues, but it is occurring in ways much more painful than we hoped.

Such changes can be traumatic, and markets often do not handle them well.

Like the footage of Neda, videos from the Syrian conflict are particularly poignant and painful.

Indeed, the conventional wisdom supported by many painful experiences was that when the industrial countries sneezed, the emerging world caught a cold.

The reforms will be painful, vested interests will resist, but with enough political will, you will reap the benefits.

True, German growth owes much to the country s willingness a decade ago to engage in painful economic reforms, especially of labor market rules.

Three Arab dictators have been toppled, some others forced to engage in reforms, while in other places the confrontation is proving to be painful and bloody.

As for the readers' feedback, people are mostly saying they can't read the book yet the memories are too raw and painful.

Reform of a country s political and economic institutions and its accession to the EU and NATO usually go hand in hand, because the prospect of membership makes painful decisions electorally acceptable.

The proposed penalties, which included cuts to financial aid and targeted visa restrictions, would have been painful for the Central American country and its high unemployment and murder rates.

If they are shouting at the top of their lungs that they will also be sanctions for us, but we have to take such measures in order to punish Russia , this is probably not very appropriate.

Back in January, the United Nations outlook for the global economy raised concerns about the economic pain this might impose on heavily indebted US households.

While human rights, crime and violence remain thorny issues, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for Jamaica, once good intentions are translated into action.

One is the establishment of democracy and the rule of law in countries that have recently emerged from dictatorship. The process requires constitution making of an often complex and painful kind.

All those involved know that, in the end, only the borders of June 1967 including Jerusalem and a negotiated, smaller territorial exchange can be acceptable to both sides, however painful.

Concerns about martial law are related to the country s bitter experience during the Marcos dictatorship in the 1970s, when martial law led to rampant human rights violations and the restriction of the people s civil liberties.