Sentence examples for sorely trying from inspiring English sources

Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me".

His other notable works for children include The Sorely Trying Day (1964), Charlie the Tramp (1967), Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas 19711), How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen (1974), Dinner at Alberta's (1975), Jim Hedgehog and the Lonesome Tower (1992), M.O.L.E.: Much Overworked Little Earthmover (1993), Trouble on Thunder Mountain (1999), and Jim's Lion (2001).

Contaminated, the Roman army was sorely tried by disease and obliged to retreat, but not definitively.

Their devotion to each other was sorely tried by the practice of polygamy.

Meanwhile, the faithful are sorely tried by Benedict's authoritarian orthodoxy on social and theological issues.

Alan Held nicely makes Kothner the sorely tried but still trying C.E.O. of Meistersinger Inc. John Relyea is the sonorous Night Watchman.

Often the men are older, battered, no longer successful, and the women have had their patience sorely tried.

His death in 1980 brought a million Muscovites into the streets around the theatre.All this sorely tried the Soviet authorities.

Mr Lee's policy, over recent years, amounted to a kind of pseudo-engagement with China at best, one that sorely tried patience on the mainland.

New agreements in December 1971 stabilized the dollar at a rate 12 percent below Bretton Woods, but the United States had sorely tried allied loyalty.

Not since the Italian Ministry of Agriculture cosied up to McDonald's for a marketing campaign earlier this year has the good reputation of Italian food been so sorely tried.