Sentence examples for long tormented from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Justice Thomas's account of his early life and how he came to be an opponent of affirmative action reinforce the idea that he has long been tormented by the role of race in his life.

In the neighborhood, which has long been tormented by routine flooding as well as brush fires, 133 of 165 households have signed up to take a buyout if one is offered, according to Joseph Tirone Jr., the leader of the Oakwood Beach Buyout Committee.

Women have long been tormented by trying to look like models in magazines -- models who themselves don't really look like that because their images were airbrushed.