Sentence examples for private trouble from inspiring English sources

Money can't buy a thought, or a connection between ideas or things, or a link between a private trouble and a public issue.

His appearance in court in support of the imam, though he's not acting as his official counsel, becomes a matter of public record and private trouble when his presence is mentioned in an article in The New York Times.

"We have private troubles all the time, but now it's become a public issue".

With their improvisational methods, Mike and Nathan push Arthur to face his private troubles in his work and force his acting career to fuse with his private life.

We're living in a public world of private troubles which we find difficult to share … we can take comfort in wildlife and landscape".

There were only indirect references to Mr. McQueen's private troubles — he had an acknowledged history of drug abuse and wild behavior — though the speakers noted that creativity was his main emotional outlet.

The concept of discussing private troubles and emotions with a stranger runs counter to some powerful Chinese beliefs about the virtues of "eating bitterness" and the perils of "disasters that come from the mouth".

So steel prices overall are increasing, and only part of the rise is being eaten up by higher input costs iron ore, coal, shipping caused by booming Chinese demand.Corus's own private troubles have shrunk too.

These private troubles combine with the strains of a wartime presidency to produce a portrait that is intimate but also decorous, drawn with extraordinary sensitivity and insight and focused, above all, on Lincoln's character as a politician.

The death of Donald Dewar, the embarrassment of Henry McLeish and the private troubles of our new First Minister, Jack McConnell, have damaged the standing of the Parliament, though mostly in the eyes of those who didn't much value it in the first place.

What this sequence of excellence has done is invest Wimbledon with renewed and exciting possibilities: if Nadal can do to Federer on grass this month what he did to such stunning effect in 2008, before injury and his own private troubles cut him down to something like mortality, he will have established contemporary dominance over the one player qualified to challenge him as the best in the sport.