When I travel elsewhere in the developed world (Australia, North America, continental Europe), the contrast is painful; development ministries being closed down, budgets cut, and (at the risk of doing an injustice to any number of talented, dedicated activists and researchers) a palpable sense of being marginal to political debate and priorities.
It was a painful development, as was the artist's dismal return to representational imagery.
During his dip, Sergei stepped on a sea-urchin spine, a painful development, but he mentioned it only in passing among the shouting, hilarity, and mutual congratulations.
Depending on their origins In politics and diplo macy, the proposals just could mark a significant new phase in the painful development of an informed and realistic policy.
If this was a painful development for England, it was also the concrete manifestation of a calamity foretold as early as the opening seconds of the game.
There were no orthodox Hegelians, but there were denominational critics of Hegelianism, especially Roman Catholics, whose cognizance of Hegel's painful development invoked, despite their differences, a certain fellow feeling with him.
To psychologists, to render the Rorschach test meaningless would be a particularly painful development because there has been so much research conducted — tens of thousands of papers, by Dr. Smith's estimate — to try to link a patient's responses to certain psychological conditions.
The Supreme Court decision on Monday invalidating Federal regulations designed to require life-prolonging medical treatment for severely handicapped infants is seen as a major ruling, but only one step in the long and painful development of new policies to govern society in the face of rapidly advancing medical capabilities.
High costs and the prospect of a long and painful development schedule kept the company away from the fully supersonic route.
In a painful development for Shah, the income tax authorities launched investigations against MCX and some of its traders this June.
