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"It's become an irritant … It's a festering wound that has been there for a long time.
The regional Spokesman-Review newspaper ran an editorial warning that Arfee's death had left "a festering wound of public mistrust".
It's like a festering wound, and I will personally make sure that I keep festering this wound.
A problem amenable to a political solution will thus become a festering wound that will yield strife for all eternity.
Visiting a Bangladeshi UN major, Jack is informed that "we are a small dirty Band-Aid on a festering wound".
But instead of curing the sickness, we blame people who point out that, underneath the smart bandage, there is a festering wound.
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"To put it metaphorically, a blister has now turned into a bloody, festering wound".
Politically, authorities don't have much reason to; it just reopens a big, festering wound".
It involves only the most straightforward politics: good government stepping in to heal an ancient, festering wound.
That means the fund would be a temporary salve on a deep and festering wound — and that McConnell and the Trump administration will almost certainly need to offer a bigger bribe.
But the measures were a sticking-plaster solution to a much deeper, festering wound on Pakistan society.
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