It is coping with the stream of people who seize their chance to trot out the one theatrical phrase that everybody on the planet knows.
What she's really asking is how am I coping with the fact that my father, Guy, is dying of cancer.
You're not coping, I tell myself, rather unkindly.
The carers may actually need more help – either some respite or to go on a "caring and coping" course.
My mother well remembers that winter, coping with a sick husband, snow and strikes.
The battle against depression is a very personal thing: services for those with mental health problems are still poor, and as we go through life we tend to develop our own coping strategies, with varying degrees of success.
(3) None of the first four sentences end with exclamation marks, although the last sentence of the article does end with four!!!! (4) Andy Burrows told one journalist he had turned to drink and counselling because he was "all out of coping mechanisms".
I wonder how Smith is coping with being seen – her preference being for privacy and silence, and for allowing her books to do their own silent and eloquent talking.
Brown, wedded to the pleasures of narrative, wrote detailed backstories for each of his people: the pot boy, he explained, may well be wishing that leafleting do-gooder would listen to his opinion for a change, while the girl turned thuggish childminder is coping with an alcoholic father who will soon be up before the bench.
"This tells us that the lesula populations at both sites are comparable, and that the lesula are coping very well with [the bushmeat threat]," explained McPhee.
The prime minister acknowledged that voters have struggled, as he praised people for coping with government cuts.
