Sentence examples for small hardships from inspiring English sources

One's own small hardships — such as forgetting one's A.T.M. card number, as Julius does, and being consumed by anxiety about it — may dominate a life as completely as someone else's much larger hardships, because life is brutally one's own, and not someone else's, and is, alas, brutally banal.

They are driven out to the Panjshir Valley, where they begin their walk, with many small hardships described in a humorous narrative, supported by genuine history of Nuristan and brief descriptions of the rare moments of beauty along the way.

Fans praise her ability to express, in brutally honed sentences, not just the nature of small human hardships and dilemmas, but the very feeling of living within them.

In times of economic hardship, small businesses are among the first to feel the effects.

It wasn't that Jennifer Song Kim liked moving so often, but that moving was a small and temporary hardship far outweighed by the chance to live in a new neighborhood.

However, the study procedures allowed for a small number of hardship cases to bypass study involvement in special circumstances.

Growing up in his small farming community where hardship and adversity sometimes reign, Zamir has only this one simple wish when he finishes school.

After the meeting, Mary Anne O'Neill, deputy legal counsel for Governor Rell, wrote to Barton D. Russell, the council's executive director, and explained that the governor's intention was not to impose any hardships on small towns but rather to increase governmental transparency.

But their children face harsh choices between scratching out a livelihood on a few acres of often poor-quality soil, or migrating en masse to the cities or across the northern border.Cowboys and IndiansThe hardships of small farmers point to another gap that has been growing in Mexico: the one between north and south.

But the move has unleashed a torrent of telephone calls and e-mail messages to state lawmakers, newspapers and the Department of Transportation deploring the lost toilets — one of the scores of small indignities among larger hardships that residents of embattled states face as governments scramble to shore up their finances.

How fortunate we are that he looked so carefully — that he found the foibles and hardships and small joys of life infused with equal measures of faith and foreboding, and that he was moved to spend his life telling us about it.