Mr. Clinton won, of course, and a new bit of conventional political wisdom was born: Trouble in August means trouble in November.
Certain types of antiques or sculpture are born trouble, no matter what anyone does, Weil claimed.
WHEN Northern Ireland came into being in the 1920s its first prime minister, James Craig, reputedly said that it was "born to trouble as the sparks fly upward".
Any reticence at the other end can be understood: the Vitesse Arnhem winger Rashica, in particular, is a thrilling young talent and the implications of losing him to neighbouring Kosovo, where he was born, are troubling.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job in the Old Testament declared, "Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward" (Job 5 7).
But his compulsion to tell the truth, regardless of wounded sensibilities, made him born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
In Sudden Death, Enrigue has portrayed this identity as something still in the making, multifaceted and deeply troubled, born from an ongoing conflict as merciless and calculating as a tennis match played from either side of the ocean by unequal rivals and over many bloody centuries.
Haakon was born into the troubled civil war era in Norway, but his reign eventually managed to put an end to the internal conflicts.
The Book of Job gives warning that "man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward".
