Sentence examples for long torment from inspiring English sources

As he sees it, basic standards of fairness were turned on their head when his own government agreed that it was fine for huge corporations to recover money from Iran but not those who had endured long torment.

Far more common were stories in which soldiers assaulted a home, destroyed property in their futile search and left terrorized civilians struggling to repair the damage and begin the long torment of trying to find family members who were hauled away as suspects.

While Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has more legitimacy than his predecessors, the clan factionalism that has long tormented Somalia for so long has not gone away.

Its hero, Jean Dominique, embodies the fragile, perpetual hope that Haiti, so long tormented by foreign meddlers and domestic dictators, might someday nurture a just and decent political order.

President Obama journeyed to Myanmar on Monday to "extend the hand of friendship" as a land long tormented by repression and poverty begins to throw off military rule and emerge from decades of isolation.

Mrs. Gibaudo said she also helped Jewish prisoners, including Mr. Marx's mother, hobble onto trains with no idea that they were headed to death camps, a cruel twist that has long tormented her.

YANGON, Myanmar — President Obama journeyed to this storied tropical outpost of pagodas and jungles on Monday to "extend the hand of friendship" as a land long tormented by repression and poverty begins to throw off military rule and emerge from decades of isolation.

For the first time in years, the Shabab Islamist group that has long tormented Somalis is receding from several areas at once, including this one, handing the Transitional Federal Government an enormous opportunity to finally step outside the capital and begin uniting this fractious country after two decades of war.

Mr. Lhota, a Republican candidate for mayor, was displaying an innovation in New York City's never-ending war on rats: the Mint-X trash bag, whose fragrance is intended to repel mice, raccoons and other pesky mammals that have long tormented New Yorkers.

Sam Shepard plays a dominating alcoholic father, a former marine who has long tormented his two sons, turning one, Sam Tobey Maguiree), into a high achiever, both athlete and war hero, dutifully serving multiple tours in Afghanistan; and the other, Tommy Jake Gyllenhaall), into a resentful, unemployable screwup.

Her second novel, The Long Viewcorrect, with its daring backwards structure, powerfully dramatised the decades-long torment of an unequal marriage.