Sentence examples for painfully strong from inspiring English sources

For exporters the currency is once again painfully strong, as it was before September.

The currency is painfully strong and unemployment is at its lowest since records began.

But her sense of duty was painfully strong and she could not resist it.

A tax on foreign-currency inflows and the Central Bank's interventions have engineered a fall in the painfully strong real of around 20% since February.

Both the current account and the exchange rate (painfully strong for much of 1997) have been under pressure since September.The current account was already being reddened by over-rapid growth; output was 10% higher in December than 12 months before.

"Those three currencies have been painfully strong in recent months, to the point where central bankers are either thinking about or starting to lower interest rates," Mr. Yardeni said.

And painfully hard to pronounce.

Its transition is painfully challenged by the strong socialist legacies of SOEs.

All this may sound painfully pre-recession, but strong advertising revenue at a handful of luxury magazines shows that marketers are still eager to pay for a targeted platform with which to reach the well-heeled.

Weber is more of a straight man in this exercise, strong but painfully out of the loop.

The simple, heartfelt story of the Oscar-winning 1976 film "Rocky"—an underdog boxer courts a painfully shy young woman makes it a strong candidate for Broadway appropriation.