Sentence examples for old troubles from inspiring English sources

FIRST came a loud, worrying echo of old troubles.

Enough women were speaking up and being heard that the old troubles could no longer be dismissed.

One reason for the sudden thaw in the market is that time has cured some old troubles.

The end of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 had brought back Antwerp's old troubles, and the control of the Scheldt by the United Provinces was confirmed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648).

It was possible, for a moment, to imagine that the old troubles would soon fade, that the Knicks had finally stopped being, well, the Knicks, and that we'd found a new hero for the years to come.

Psychological studies have shown that people tend to reconstruct the past in terms of the present -- they often exaggerate the degree of earlier misfortune if they are feeling bad, or minimize old troubles if they are feeling good.

Old trouble spots -- the Middle East, Iraq, Northern Ireland -- would not go away, and they remained immune to economic incentives.

I tried to tell myself I'd do better next time, but whenever next time came along, the old trouble returned.

But at the time, I trusted the book to guide me to a proverb that spoke exactly to my twelve-year-old troubles.

On October 24th Ms Mowlam asked Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, a former senior civil servant, to head a commission to decide on how best the victims of Northern Ireland's 28-year-old Troubles should be commemorated.

REMEMBER back when some people were arguing that allowing older, troubled banks to fail and replacing them with new banks with clean balance sheets might be the best way to address the problems in the banking system?