Sentence examples for painful call from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — The first, and perhaps most painful, call for Kathleen Sebelius to resign as President Obama's health secretary came this month from an old family friend: Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, who once boasted of a "special relationship" with Ms. Sebelius, forged when he worked for her father-in-law.

An up-close, acutely painful call to action, the movie pivots on a young American, a former Marine captain named Brian Steidle, who for six months beginning in the fall of 2004 worked for the African Union as an unarmed monitor in Darfur.

He sat out the tech boom a painful call when high-tech stocks soared, but a decision that now looks prescient.

When the final cut came, I was rejected, receiving the painful call in my room on campus in Ann Arbor.

Call it a food revolution (like Jamie Oliver), call it painful, call it anything you like... but I call it absolutely necessary.

Canada's federal public safety minister, Ralph Goodale, acknowledged the situation facing the community in an interview with CKOM radio station on Friday, calling the shootings a "horribly painful wakeup call that there are circumstances that absolutely need to be fixed".

In a painful conference call, the campaign's manager and polling director tried to persuade Mr. Zukin and Star-Ledger editors to take another sampling, to rerun the numbers, to reconsider their methodology and, above all, not to publish the results on Sunday.

Anger, rage, jealousy, despair, vengefulness, and every other painful emotion call your attention to where it is needed.

From the beginning, my goal while writing Thrive was to use my own journey -- including a painful wakeup call that led me to change my own life -- as a springboard for a wider discussion about our society's flawed definition of success, and the ways we need to redefine it.

Especially bad sprains and strains can lead the muscles in the area of the injury to misfire, causing painful contractions called cramps or involuntary motions called spasms.

Decades later, it may reactivate along the nerve pathway and cause the very painful rash called shingles, and later, in many cases, a persistent pain called postherpetic neuralgia, or PHN.