Sentence examples for painful changes from inspiring English sources

Instead, she has wielded the pain of soaring interest rates as a cudgel to extract painful changes — and demand leadership changes — in countries like Greece and Italy that have proven resistant to those changes in the past.

But the painful changes have begun paying dividends.

Will he get more money to help smooth upcoming painful changes?

This year has been full of painful changes for Ms. Figueroa and her children.

Yet there are other equally painful changes that are hard to measure.

The government has said painful changes are necessary to make the economy more competitive and transparent.

Painful changes may deliver dividends sooner than many people think, he said.

That would seem to make it harder to undertake the sort of necessary painful changes.

It helps policy makers resist the temptation to print money rather than make painful changes.

Either party would have to make painful changes to health-care finances and pensions.

"This is one of the most reasonable, most justifiable, least painful changes you could make," Mr. Greenstein said.