Sentence examples for painful concerns from inspiring English sources
In private meetings every year with women who were officers and cadets at dozens of military installations, panel members said, they solicited and addressed often painful concerns about sexual harassment and assault.
"Arab media may have to change the meaning of journalism, give up fashionable ties and shiny shoes, go down to the street and convey the people's simple and painful concerns, with absolute loyalty to simple facts, and to return to their basic role as a mirror of the people, not the rulers," Fahed argued.
And it is on this horribly misjudged booze-pilgrimage to nowhere that they realise there is painful unfinished business concerning Oliver's sister Sam (Rosamund Pike), that they have romanticised their youth, and that their home town has something strange about it.
As with many cherished memories, though, I do have one painful regret concerning that day.
This claim is part of Hume's more general claim that our indirect passions (including our moral sentiments) are aroused and sustained only when the pleasurable or painful qualities concerned (e.g. the virtues and vices) stand in a durable or constant relation with the person who is their object (T, 2.1.6.7/292 3; DP, 2.11).
Sherman's decision was painful for all concerned.
Every child has to separate from the mother and the separation can be painful for all concerned.
You might call all that upheaval, some of it intensely painful for everyone concerned, a crisis; I call it a recognition that life is short, and that 40 is not too late to fix the stuff that isn't working.
Their involvement was not welcomed by every charity in the coalition, but for me the lesson to be drawn from the culture clash is not that we should stop creating high impact coalitions, it's that we should work out and change whatever it is in charity culture that makes working inside them so painful for all concerned.
When they paused for a long moment with a painful expression of concern I felt my cheeks flush crimson red.
