"He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came".
A divorced and illiterate thirty-nine-year-old mother of three, Caroline moves through life under a terrible gravitational pull of woe and resignation.
I shoulda aborted your ass!" Even when Precious begins to overcome this abuse through special educational classes – in which she has been enrolled by a sharp-eyed teacher who has spotted her talent for mathematics – and even found a measure of articulacy through burgeoning happiness and self-esteem, she receives news of a terrible new burden of woe in the movie's final act.
Add in their road woes and terrible history in Houston, and the game should've been a lost cause.
In the view of many who are paid to extract corporations from terrible situations, Toyota, BP and Goldman exacerbated their woes by either declining to fess up promptly, casting blame elsewhere or striking adversarial postures with the public, the government and the news media.
You can say, woe is me, my life is terrible, I go to school barefoot every day – by high school I wasn't – why is it so unfair these other kid have got Nikes on?
Unless the copper price rises, or a buyer (perhaps the government) steps in, the mines will shut within months.All this is terrible news for Zambia, already buffeted by the woes of next-door Zimbabwe.
The standard-issue Thomas-Friedman solution to our major economic woes -- no jobs, income inequality, terrible wages -- is for low-wage workers to just go and get themselves an edumacation already.
Mr Biden deserves credit for succeeding where his boss failed, but the budget deal he struck with Mr McConnell was terrible, sparing most Americans a tax rise but doing nothing to address larger fiscal woes.
Woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe is we.
