Sentence examples for cause agony from inspiring English sources

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"For the sake of evil, the Slumlords twist the law to cause agony and despair.

A hand left resting on his leg, over time, can cause agony as gravity forces the fingernail into his skin - a pain that he says can sometimes be worse than the time on a fishing boat when he accidentally slashed his hand with a gutting knife.

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Most use a sequence of drugs that is supposed to provide a painless death, but when it is administered incorrectly it causes agony that amounts to torture.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's nationalist prime minister, pronounced that false reporting on comfort women had "caused agony to many people and damaged Japan's international reputation".Soon after the news, Sanae Takaichi, a revisionist politician who recently joined the cabinet, demanded anew a changed version of the Kono apology.

Zika hit the Americas and beyond, causing agony for pregnant women, women who may become pregnant, thousands of newborns with Zika-related abnormalities, and their families.

The texts of the secular songs that followed revisited the familiar topic of love's power to cause ecstasy, agony and embarrassment.

And such a drive for perfection takes a heavy psychological toll, because every flaw, no matter how small, is cause for agony.

"Initially it might not seem to bother you too much, but when you start living there, it will cause more agony".

The title gets to the idea: Ray presented war as hell for winners and losers, survivors and victims alike, and Burton — as a reluctant hero for whom killing, despite the justice of the cause, is agony — seems completely alive to himself and his surroundings and yet increasingly dead within.

Ferrari is really starting to cause me agony.

The presence of excess fluoride in drinking water has become a potential cause of agony to hundreds of million people the world over as it initiates the debilitating disease fluorosis.

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