Sentence examples for escaped pain from inspiring English sources

Bondholders who financed banks that failed largely escaped pain.

While most fell in 2008 and later made at least partial recoveries, there are a few, notably in Australia, that escaped pain early on but declined this year as Chinese growth — and demand for some imports — slowed.

Finally, Elwood looked at how the need to escape pain competed with other desires.

This is because the greatest possible misery is also the greatest possible pain, and the urge to escape pain is entirely pre-moral.

Ms. Thernstrom gives us glimpses of the mid-19th-century men (Dr. Henry Bigelow: "Our craft has, once and for all, been robbed of its terrors") who discovered or recognized the efficacy of ether and chloroform, and the surgeons who, at first, opposed their use (Alfred Velpeau: "To escape pain in surgical operation is a chimera").

In reality, there's no way to escape pain in our work-lives – at some point, we'll all feel it.

This fatal disposition has its origin in the very constitution of man in that primitive, and universal, and invincible sentiment that urges it towards its well-being, and makes it seek to escape pain.

We cannot escape pain, difficulty, failure, tragedy and heartache.

A man thinks that he can escape pain easier than a woman.

If people want drugs, whether to enhance a night out or escape pain, supply will follow demand.

Fairness, after all, does not mean we escape pain but that we bear our pain with a measure of stoicism and pride, knowing that we are doing our part.