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A European finance minister would, moreover, finally end Europe’s self-inflicted agony in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
These developments offer hope that current and future homeowners will be spared the agony of worrying about the vicissitudes of the real estate market.
Core countries, meanwhile, argue that they can do little to strengthen aggregate demand and relieve pressure on their partners, even as the periphery’s agony is dragging the core into recession, owing to its dependence on peripheral export markets.
As long as that remains true, Haiti's agony will continue.
The once-glorious country of Great Britain is now in a state of political agony as it tries to sort out the politics, economics, and logistics of leaving the bloc.
You see people on a path toward a terrible fate – much worse than getting lung cancer, because death will not release them from their agony – and they are blind to what awaits them.
Had a US consumer converted $100 into Libra back then, they would be subjected to the agony of watching the tokens’ domestic purchasing power move up and down like a yo-yo.
A majority of UK citizens will probably be relieved to bring this seemingly endless agony to a close, while most European leaders will likely be glad not to have to argue over another postponement.
We then performed a test: I blew air toward her, and she collapsed in pain;I offered her water, and her agony intensified sharply.
Instead, she died, having barely lived, in searing agony.
The misery had grown still greater, and the settlements were in agony from hour to hour beneath the increasing famine.
His desolate household, his whole wounded life, choked him at the throat like a death agony.
To the other causes of suffering--the stoppage of orders from America, and the engorgement of invested capital in excessive production--was now added the unforeseen lack of coal for the few furnaces which were still kept up; and that was the supreme agony, this engine bread which the pits no longer furnished.
The emptied house was now in its last agony, having reached a final stage of nakedness.
The spectacle of this agony so overcame him that he tried to find words to advise submission.
Then, when Trompette, bathed in sweat, lay in agony in his litter, Bataille had smelled at him despairingly with short sniffs like sobs.
But he moved, seized her with both arms in the convulsion of his agony, as if he wanted to take her again, as he had taken her at the bottom of the black hiding-place where they had spent the past night.
He had recognized Maheude and Zacharie sobbing before this downfall, the weight of which was so heavy on the heads of the wretches who were in agony beneath.
He will be there, without doubt, when the middle class in agony shall hear the pavement of the streets bursting up beneath their feet.
It was a sight of fearful agony, this old beast shattered and motionless, struggling at this depth, far from the daylight.
The fallen shaft, the inundated mine, nothing had seized her with such terror as this clamour of Bataille in agony.
And she was not willing; she trembled lest, by returning to him, she should throw these two men on to each other in this narrow cave, where they were all in agony together.
They looked at one another and their thoughts, confounded in the same agony, clung close together like two throbbing breasts.
Then, without any consideration for Hippolyte, who was sweating with agony between his sheets, these gentlemen entered into a conversation, in which the druggist compared the coolness of a surgeon to that of a general; and this comparison was pleasing to Canivet, who launched out on the exigencies of his art.
He sent Felicite to Homais, to Monsieur Tuvache, to Lheureux, to the "Lion d'Or," everywhere, and in the intervals of his agony he saw his reputation destroyed, their fortune lost, Berthe's future ruined.
She turned her head from side to side with a gentle movement full of agony, while constantly opening her mouth as if something very heavy were weighing upon her tongue.
She cursed the poison, railed at it, and implored it to be quick, and thrust away with her stiffened arms everything that Charles, in more agony than herself, tried to make her drink.
He thundered against the spirit of the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, to recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring his excrements, as everyone knows.
All my life long, that action will be a matter for doubt to me, and such a doubt is the most bitter agony.
The agony of jealousy can go no farther.
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