And before this weekend, without a win in eight, having endured four defeats in a row, they felt like they were.
When the value of his property was assessed on his death in 1344 the estates of Brougham were suffering from the war, with indications that Brougham Castle was in a state of disrepair having endured the 1340s without funds for maintenance.
In 2005, it withdrew and, since then, the Lebanese system, without a kingmaker, has endured more years of deadlock than not.
Barcelona have won many matches without him – Iniesta has endured two spells out injured – but it is not entirely coincidental that since the opening day Barça have lost just three matches and Iniesta missed them all.
They had endured without a charter for eight years.
The hardening process: Could tender American boys have endured without it?
Or are the social forces that shaped him the same pressures that thousands of other people have endured without being driven to kill?
No one knows exactly how much of it was destroyed, and no one knows what it might have meant, as history unfolded, if that library and its texts had endured without loss.
Abbas's defenders will say the president was simply referring to the long years the Palestinians have endured without statehood but such is the way this perennial argument operates.
This I can & do endure as becomes a man it was the horrible never-ending oscillation between hope & despair which I could not longer have endured without the total loss of reason".
