As soon as there is no longer any hope — what's the point of hanging around to suffer fruitlessly and in vain?
He seems to be an all-American guy except that he creates strange installations of hanging ropes, and suffers from visions -- of himself as a child in Afghanistan in traditional dress, of smoke and bombs, of his dead parents and the Russian soldier who shot them during the Soviet invasion.
Such was the press of people around the theatre that many "arrived at last with dresses crushed and torn, and coats hanging in shreds, having suffered bruises and blows in the struggle".
Two weeks later, he tried a third time and, by the time he was discovered and saved, he had been hanging long enough to suffer apparently permanent brain damage.
Having been skittled for 94 in their first innings, Northants' hopes of hanging on for a draw suffered a body blow just before the end of the third day when James Middlebrook edged Brooks to the keeper on 63.
Heywood and the other five were found guilty of the charge of mutiny, and were ordered to suffer death by hanging.
But this is not the forum to rehash old wars about the popular vote and about who suffered because they kept hanging some guy named Chad down in Florida.
Stanley was visiting a stepbrother, one of Dine's sons from a previous marriage, when the news came that Mr. Dine had suffered a heart attack while hanging curtains, and had died.
The 10-time European champions have qualified for their fifth successive Champions League quarter-final but were left hanging on at the Bernabeu as they suffered a fifth defeat of 2015.
It could well be their last, with doubts hanging over Richards's health, particularly since he suffered a head injury during a holiday in Fiji in 2006.
