Sentence examples for common ordeal from inspiring English sources

A less life-threatening but far more common ordeal results when someone locks his keys inside his car.

There are certain groups of people inextricably bound together by common, harrowing ordeals.

His family's ordeal is common here.

For Haswell, the mother's ordeal is too common.

Mental imagery (picturing the trauma in your mind), visiting the place where the traumatic event happened, and encouraging sufferers to write about their ordeal are all common tools of this kind of therapy.

Today's left- and right-wingers for the most part aren't inventing myths of shared blood and common ancestry, or binding together in ritual ordeals, or blending in appearance with a common uniform.

It is the kind of nightmarish ordeal that is an all-too-common feature of Colombia's long war: peasants being terrorized by gunmen seeking dominance in the backlands.

Legal charity Reprieve employed a piece of ancient English common law in a bid to end Rahmatullah's ordeal, and lawyers asked judges to grant "habeas corpus" relief.

Chemotherapy is one of the most common treatments for cancer, and it can be an ordeal.

One lawyer who practices at Eloy characterized it to me as "a trial of endurance a trial of ordeal, as they used to say in common law".

In "The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, Linda Colleyy has written a biography that tests all common notions about the genre.