That could affect his thinking on present-day crises, including the travails of the euro zone.
The wails of a newborn will lure its mother away from almost anything, including the physical travails of her mate.
His travails include the organ with which he has been fitted to do his job, which makes as much noise as aircraft landing gear when activated.
For all their travails, which include the off-season loss of the high-scoring Zach Parise, a monthlong injury to goalie Martin Brodeur (back) and the current absence of the explosive forward Ilya Kovalchuk (shoulder), the Devils remain confident.
Paul McCartney's travails related to fame include the proximate cause of The Beatles' breakup, his rancorous dispute with his childhood friend John.
In the decades that followed Afghanistan suffered travail after travail, including the Soviet invasion and a series of brutal civil conflicts that left much of the country in ruins.
Many link their subsequent political travails, including the 1979 Islamic revolution, to this early defeat.Mossadeq nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951, denting British prestige and prompting fears, especially in America, that his unstable premiership would pave the way for a communist takeover.
Its slight script charts the challenges of making Latino music in the seventies and eighties (Estefan's Miami Sound Machine was deemed too Latin for mainstream American markets, too Anglo for the Spanish-speaking crowd); the band's eventual surmounting of such barriers; and the travails of touring, including the singer's near-fatal injury in a 1990 bus accident.
Teachers have long lamented that policymakers fail to grasp the daily travails they face, including the challenges outside the classroom that hamper student learning, such as trauma at home or lack of medical care.
Though he chose to build his second company around travel, Ali did not stop wading into arguments about the travails of established media companies, including the Guardian.
