Even if we have no direct connection to anyone who went to the front lines, we too can witness the impact of war and be mindful of the intense and heartbreaking toll it takes.
The week of intense racing took its toll on Phelps, who stayed away from the pool for long stretches in the fall and winter.
Calling for a new sentencing hearing, the justices wrote that lawyers for the defendant, George Porter Jr., should have presented evidence of "the intense stress and emotional toll that combat took" on Mr. Porter, who suffered from "dreadful nightmares and would attempt to climb his bedroom walls with knives at night".
"The relevance of Porter's extensive combat experience is not only that he served honorably under extreme hardship and gruesome conditions," the decision said, "but also that the jury might find mitigating the intense stress and emotional toll that combat took on Porter".
By Elizabeth Kiem NEW YORK, USA, 20 June 2008 – Forty days of recent intense violence took a toll on close to 1 million children in Baghdad's Sadr City, which is home to 2.5 million Iraqis.
Firefighters said the stresses of the job, along with the sudden bursts of intense activity, can take their toll.
Intense competition is taking its toll not just among the doomed newcomers, but on the industry leaders as well.The shares of Europe's two leading budget airlines, Ryanair and easyJet, have fallen steeply in recent months, after both companies issued profit warnings (see chart 1).
This constant intense brain activity takes its toll, both physically and psychologically, on children.
Some years ago Dubai came under huge pressure over the human toll of it's intense construction boom.
She wrote the book in less than a year, an intense period that sometimes took its toll.
