A lawyer appointed to assist Mr. Burns through the trials described him as a "great man".
The country had just gone through the trials of the Watergate political scandal.
"To be truthful, I see it go through the trials and probably right up to the Games," she said.
"I also apologize for my people, my family, for putting them through the trials, tribulations that they've been helping me with".
I've been through the trials and tribulations, I've had the double-digit scorelines as recently as 2008 and 2009, and to turn it around this quickly is amazing".
Luján, on the other hand, needs moral and emotional support to sustain her through the trials of an impossibly demanding occupation and to save her from despair.
Chang W. Lee, a New York Times photographer, intends to follow the athletes over the next year as they go through the trials of physical reinvention.
He's a fairy-tale hero, but she has to pass through the trials: She has to trim her cold or pompous adversaries; she has to dispel his fog.
"Part of that is just growing and living, suffering and failing and going through the trials of life, having a wife and kids.
At Le Mans the car "went through the trials; it actually did pretty well," Mr. Meyer said, though the car was not raced there.
He suddenly aged, lost his good looks and his equability of temper, which had hitherto seen him through the trials of operatic production.
