Sentence examples for prolonged agony from inspiring English sources

THE author of a new book discusses Pussy Riot's farcical trial, feminism in Russia and the "very prolonged" agony she sees as characterising the last stage of Vladimir Putin's regime.

Alito's majority opinion, joined by the court's other Republican appointees, answered the issue with a ringing endorsement of the protocol, despite the fact that the cocktail had caused prolonged agony in two previous executions.

Hence a treatment which cannot be afforded or which will cause prolonged agony need not be given.

Why shouldn't the terminally ill meet death on their own terms, rather than at the end of prolonged agonies?

Palliative care doctors generally agree that sedated patients do not feel pain from dehydration or starvation, and that food and water may only prolong agony by feeding the fatal disease.

It was prolonged, crescendoing agony for them".

A misplaced sense of drama and ritual prolonged the agony.

They felt it just prolonged the agony, made them suffer, and gave them side effects.

But, somewhat contradictorily, he concludes that this course would just have "prolonged the agony".

Similarly, serious failings in the inquests and reviews that followed prolonged the agony of the families of the victims.

This has merely prolonged their agony and that of their borrowers in the building, property and retail industries.