Even putting Lucía under was an ordeal, her mother said.
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Sure enough, when Ramadan came around, it was an ordeal.
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This whole thing has been a bit of an ordeal.
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"To go to the bathroom is an ordeal," she said.
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Even finding a jury will be an ordeal, Hornsby says.
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But for parents, finding that help can be an ordeal.
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Many of his peers would find such an ordeal agonizing.
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It was an ordeal that made the patrol partners inseparable.
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"I've never been through an ordeal quite like this," she said.
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"It was an ordeal that changed my life forever," she says.
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It's an ordeal to walk alone at night as a girl.
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Who would put themselves and their family through such an ordeal?
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We anticipate an ordeal in these instances and are rarely disappointed.
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Bailey says survivors never have to tough out such an ordeal alone.
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If he were a quarter-inch longer, sex would be an ordeal.
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It became such an ordeal that celebrities, like Don Cheadle, weighed in.
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An ordeal that Grande isn't entirely unfamiliar with, as it turns out.
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"This whole thing has been a bit of an ordeal," Grimes wrote.
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Logging into our social media and email accounts online can be an ordeal.
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Hormonal turmoil and pressure to fit in can make growing up an ordeal.
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It was an ordeal and all because I just tried a free sample.
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Picking up an Uber at the airport can be something of an ordeal.
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Writing the book had been an excitement, but publishing it was an ordeal.
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Getting to the station was a bit of an ordeal for the robot.
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At parties, it was an ordeal to explain how he earned a living.
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The investigation is separate from an ordeal with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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It's one reason finalizing the rules for peanut butter was such an ordeal.
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Commuting in the sweltering city of 20 million is often an ordeal for women.
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Finishing the movie in time for SXSW was an ordeal in itself, Cherry said.
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Hurt (IPAC)If Planet 9 exists, it's been through one hell of an ordeal.
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Nobody could foresee what an ordeal it would be later to remove the papers.
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"The 10-step Korean regimen is an ordeal for the skin," Dr. Surber said.
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Everyone else is overwrought, and the run time of three hours is an ordeal.
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Last-minute decision-making for Thanksgiving beverages does not have to be an ordeal.
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Deciding what to bring and what to leave behind, however, proved to be an ordeal.
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Meeting strangers for the first time can be kind of an ordeal for many people.
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It feels a lot like learning you have HIV, an ordeal I've already been through.
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"As a nation, we are facing an ordeal of the most grievous kind," he wrote.
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Flooded streets turned a 15-minute drive into an ordeal lasting more than two hours.
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There were no other girls, it wasn't an ordeal, and we had a nice conversation.
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We're going because the New York City public high school application process was an ordeal.
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The lawsuit largely rehashes an ordeal that has been publicly litigated since the center's eviction.
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It just might make the difference between shavings being a pleasure instead of an ordeal.
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But at a conference with so few options and opportunities, it turned into an ordeal.
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Casting the life-sized (6' x 4') Triceratops head proved to be something of an ordeal.
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And especially annoying ... it's an ordeal for guests who visit homeowners ... the security process is intense.
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"He got me to run my first Tough Mudder," an ordeal-like race and obstacle course.
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Every commute is an ordeal for BART's two million weekly users, with cars jammed beyond capacity.
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But for many, it's an ordeal just finding out what the actual symptoms or guidelines are.
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Many gym recruits will wear their new togs for an ordeal known as high-intensity interval training.
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"Putting a bra on, and especially taking it off post sweat-session is an ordeal," she says.
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Birds can be an ordeal for airports, and airports need to keep the area clear of them.
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She is right: no one should have to go through an ordeal to have their voices heard.
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It's an ordeal all of us who take the train have endured at one point or another.
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Things are so difficult that simply finding a contractor to rehab a home can be an ordeal.
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"It's been an ordeal but we're coming through this fairly well," Arakawa said at a news conference.
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Just getting there from Bogotá can be an ordeal that takes most of a day (and night).
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I was just happy that it was over, and I just cried because it was such an ordeal.
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"They're showing real Canadian grit, as are their families for whom this is also an ordeal," she said.
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It's no surprise that simply receiving preventative care is an ordeal for trans and gender non-binary folks.
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"She is right: no one should have to go through an ordeal to have their voices heard," he said.
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One Reddit user, D20Lo, in Seattle, described an ordeal that began with fever, chest pains, and a sore throat.
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For McCain, it was the beginning of an ordeal as prisoner of war that lasted more than five years.
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It was hardly an ordeal, to be clear; journalists face far worse threats and abuse in China and elsewhere.
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They renovated the one theater in my hometown in Jersey, and it's just too much of an ordeal for her.
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Lynn Nottage -- a notable playwright -- suffered one hell of an ordeal getting locked in the bathroom at the Lincoln Center.
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Daytime temperatures can prove as much of an ordeal given that observant Muslims may not drink water during fasting times.
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Her tragic death came after her parents' desperate search for cancer treatment, in an ordeal that captured the nation's attention.
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But putting the Zoe on is kind of an ordeal as well — or, it's at least a three-step process.
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Some advisors find themselves embroiled in quite protracted matters but come out better on the other side of an ordeal.
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Further, the source says Jennifer would never make up something like this, and put her child through such an ordeal.
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He suffered an ordeal that many believe gave him the courage and character to become one of our greatest presidents.
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They planned to seek asylum in the United States but didn't expect that seeking asylum would be such an ordeal.
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"I was 26 and experiencing this very public shaming," he said, an ordeal that he still recalls with some anguish.
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It's such an ordeal to get medicine, and if you do find it you have to pay in U.S. dollars.
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But the entire experience has been quite an ordeal for the 19-year-old, who is studying literature and communications.
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Chalamet is now, he was still serving time as Edward Cullen in the Twilight series, an ordeal that has no
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It seems merely an ordeal the country must navigate with some grace until he flies off to bother someone else.
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But when you emerge from the subway, it's still an ordeal to walk around roadside fences and through waves of traffic.
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Now some tech companies are developing products to make shopping less of an ordeal for customers with blindness or low vision.
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Today on The Wendy Williams Show, supermodel Naomi Campbell revealed that she faced an ordeal similar to Kardashian's assault in November.
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It's an ordeal, even if the payoff of incredible music, Instagrammable food, and oodles of celebrity sightings is undeniably worth it.
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That said, given the cloying nature of Dee Dee's persona, watching does begin to feel like a bit of an ordeal.
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He's already revealed he's battling dementia, but also said he has arthritis bad enough that it makes strumming the guitar an ordeal.
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We did IVF, and it was an ordeal in and of itself, as it is for anyone who has to do it.
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Her arrest goes to the heart of an ordeal confronting many Afghan refugees who fled to Pakistan because of decades of war.
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The man, William Durden, said the night was an ordeal but when the sun came up, he felt a surge of optimism.
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For the next several years, the confrontation with MOVE would be remembered as an ordeal that transformed the fabric of the city.
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It was quite an ordeal for him because his mom didn't want him to go to a hospital because of the coronavirus.
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Many LSD or psilocybin trips — even good trips — begin with an ordeal that can feel scarily similar to dissolving, or even dying.
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Mr. DeLuca suddenly had two women in his life to care for, an ordeal that drew all three of them closer together.
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Thanks to Amazon's rampant development without accompanying transportation infrastructure, it is an ordeal to cross town at any hour of the day.
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We get it: buying a new mattress is an ordeal that's an equally big investment for both our finances and general wellbeing.
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Briana Foust, a tennis blogger from Columbia, S.C., was among those who used the Ukrainian site, and found it be an ordeal.
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Severe foot pain made walking torturous, and numbness in her hands turned buttoning a shirt or holding a glass into an ordeal.
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They can be uncomfortable to climb, create a weird, useless space behind them and make moving anything up or down an ordeal.
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Click here to view original GIFThere are a million reasons—academic and social—why high school can be quite an ordeal for kids.
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"First-time visitors may discover that finding the way around is an ordeal, especially if they do not speak the language," he wrote.
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Like Herzog, Oppenheimer too faced an ordeal in making The Act of Killing and its follow-up, 2014's The Look of Silence.
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You don't actually have to watch the movie; neither your physician nor I would recommend you put your body through such an ordeal.
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But it was much more of an ordeal when it involved Barstool Sports, a fratty, sports website extensively criticized for its misogynistic content.
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"It can be quite an ordeal to see a doctor in a hospital if you are a frail older adult," Dr. DeCherrie said.
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This misogyny can make reading Houellebecq an ordeal, and he ought to be read with the suspicion and resistance that his ideas deserve.
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Each battle was an ordeal, a fight against a fanatical enemy that was dug in and determined to fight to the last man.
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California's parole hearings are something like an ordeal of the soul, an investigation of every stage of an inmate's life from birth onward.
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More remarkably, the novel's concluding scenes of torture anticipate an ordeal that began for Di Benedetto twenty years after his novel was published.
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To relieve the pain in his back, Giles received five epidurals a year, an ordeal he gave up when he started taking painkillers.
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Morgan's magnetic performance, however, has come at a cost in terms of the show's "ick" factor, feeling less like an escape than an ordeal.
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Last year, a routine traffic stop snowballed into an ordeal with a missed court date, cops showing up to the house, and, ultimately, despair.
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Many questioned how they could have survived such an ordeal and arrived in decent shape; the three repeatedly chalked up their survival to God.
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It wasn't a matter of if I would use tampons, but how I would get them, which became an ordeal I dreaded every month.
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In his view, he and Nicole are just regular folks going through an ordeal, not too much different from other families with sick children.
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Because 95 percent of its listings are pre-furnished, that's not as much of an ordeal as it would be with a traditional rental.
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Through a series of missions, in which he encounters mentors and allies, he ends up becoming a hero — but not before facing an Ordeal.
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It's an ordeal, and it's not worth it if the only result is to have a glass of wine with dinner during the week.
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For dissenters, the tyranny of turkey is real — even though it's an ordeal to prepare, and most of us know it's generally a letdown.
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On the other hand, the minute-to-minute experience of watching the movie, sometimes through your fingers, is an ordeal of the best kind.
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This year's Boston Marathon, with its horizontal rain and freezing temperatures, wasn't just an ordeal unfolding amid some of the worst weather in decades.
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Getting to Hudson Yards isn't such an ordeal, and Eunjo Park's menu fights the shopping mall's big-box torpor every step of the way.
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It captures the grind before a comedian is famous, an ordeal that isn't always funny — and the show has no qualms about saying so.
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And though it was an ordeal, he summed up, "But [I] survived a 2nd surgery and was thankful to the friends who had come along."
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"Looking for a property in Spain, and more generally in continental Europe is an ordeal," Marion, who co-founded Kasaz with Idriss Farhat, tells me.
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They could not believe I was going out for a set visit while recovering from such an ordeal; I shrugged nonchalantly, playing the grizzled trooper.
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A dramatic, international rescue effort ended on July 10 when they were all brought out safely after an ordeal that made headlines around the world.
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Her arrest goes to the heart of an ordeal confronting many Afghan refugees who fled across the border into Pakistan because of decades of war.
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"This had been such an ordeal that I wanted to personally handle what I thought was the end of a long bureaucratic nightmare," Rodriguez wrote.
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Imagine how normal, how routine, the threat of a school shooting has to have become for you to have that reaction after such an ordeal.
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After an ordeal that stretched over 18 days, all 103 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued safely from a flooded cave in Thailand.
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It's not the case for everybody, and on the whole SM is an ordeal, but struggling with communication teaches you what it is to be human.
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The Mercedes driver, who has little time to recover before the next race in Hungary this weekend, left no doubt that Hockenheim had been an ordeal.
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For people who are homeless, getting help can be an ordeal, from the arduous application process for shelter to the long wait for a subsidized apartment.
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The rescued boys smiled and waved from their hospital beds in the first video clip released on Wednesday after an ordeal that has gripped the world.
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She went through a years-long depressive episode and a suicide attempt, in an ordeal that overlapped with her cementing herself as a mental health advocate.
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Long-distance travel is an ordeal at the best of times, so you can imagine the world's longest commercial non-stop flight ain't for the faint-hearted.
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When you're Kendall and Kylie Jenner and cameras follow your every waking moment, deciding on your outfit for the day isn't just a challenge, it's an ordeal.
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Just existing is obviously an ordeal, and yet, technology companies continue to find new and exciting ways to smush the human experience into a mortifying gray smear.
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And if they happen to burn off a little excess energy in the process so bedtime is less of an ordeal, what parent is going to complain?
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Last month, he and his four surviving children were officially settled in Detroit after an ordeal that included untreated stomach cancer during a legal limbo in Turkey.
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Maybe that's for the best, to let this dog lie and just enjoy all of the music that seemed to be a result of such an ordeal.
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Geoff Fienberg, who was on the "It's a Small World" ride when the outage happened, told CNN it wasn't much of an ordeal after the ride stopped.
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However, one could also say it's textbook Stockholm Syndrome ... where victims develop a connection to their captor, but it's really a psychological defense to survive an ordeal.
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It was the start of an ordeal of captivity and verbal abuse that lasted more than two years, she said, and eventually drove her to attempt suicide.
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Because she had failed a drug test on arrival, officers dismissed her complaints as those of a user in withdrawal, an ordeal that is rarely life-threatening.
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Even sex, presented for so long as a perk of the job, is framed as a chore, an ordeal to be overcome in pursuit of the greater goal.
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Cami Abernathy, of Cartersville, Georgia, says she never expected that her son's common cold symptoms would mark the start of an ordeal that would change the family forever.
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Voting in the Iowa caucuses is an ordeal -- an extended process of sitting and debating with friends and neighbors, usually in either freezing cold or snow or both.
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Little did they know their 32-year-old son's behavior was the beginning of an ordeal that would end with Coweta County officers tasing Chase Sherman to death.
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Immigrants on a recent aborted flight for repatriation from the U.S. to Somalia are now telling of an ordeal where they were beaten and not given sufficient food.
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From behind the camera, director Nanette Burstein, best known for the delightful Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, observes that this must be an ordeal.
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But the tradition has endured largely because it has been a means to share with the next generation an ordeal that has been seared into the nation's consciousness.
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"It's been such an ordeal leading up to [the wedding], so when you're alone and you can finally exhale and look at each other … I'm really excited for that."
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In other cases, however, using one's online presence to build supportive communities both on and offline can be important for maintaining your mental health during an ordeal like stalking.
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He sweats, he swears, he bleeds—his physical deterioration matches perfectly the game itself, which gradually becomes more violent, more difficult, and more of an ordeal for the player.
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Although the condition affects up to 10% of women in the U.S., women often struggle to get a diagnosis, partly because it can be an ordeal to get one.
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Simply getting to Barcelona became something of an ordeal for Ms. Abu Hanna, whose birth name is Hanna Abu Hanna — she adopted Talleen around the time of her transition.
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This year's Boston Marathon, with its horizontal rain and freezing temperatures, wasn't just an ordeal unfolding amid some of the worst weather in decades, wrote Lindsay Crouse in April.
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His head was shaved, and he was forced to strip and wash under the guards' supervision, an ordeal that Hikmat, having grown up in conservative Kandahar, found particularly humiliating.
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Lincoln Center officials have instructed them to carry a stack of identifying documents, permissions and invitations to satisfy inspectors at the airport — and to gird themselves for an ordeal.
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And third, if one survives such an ordeal, landing gear extension on approach to the airport would disrupt the perch of a stowaway, potentially sending him falling to his demise.
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An ordeal in a hotel room where he attempted to treat me like chattel that could be purchased with the promise of work in exchange for being his disposable orifice.
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Four boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach remain deep in the cave, an ordeal that has lasted more than two weeks after they were trapped inside by floods.
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Please find below a few bravely perverse passages from my upcoming novel, Boned, taking bookstores from behind summer 2016: - Riding the subway every morning was an ordeal for the professor.
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While being restrained, hooded and dragged along the ground may be an ordeal for the fresh-faced UNHCR staff, many of the more hardened humanitarians have experienced worse in reality.
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My own return to Ramallah via Jordan in 1973 was an ordeal, culminating in a prolonged interrogation, a strip search and the confiscation of my belongings by the Israeli Army.
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By the time he was 10, he said, he had been starved in one of his foster homes, an ordeal that made it difficult for him to trust his guardians.
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During the match, which the sisters insisted was an adventure rather than an ordeal, their mother, Brandy, sat in a neutral corner, smiling and fanning herself with her grounds pass.
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With the power of prayer and God's guiding hand, I know that my family and I will emerge stronger from this ordeal, an ordeal that I am responsible for. 16.
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Williams' harrowing childbirth experience sounds unusual, but it's an ordeal that is becoming all too normal for mothers across the United States — and many aren't as lucky to make it through.
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In Britain, the Brexit referendum and related collapse in the value of the pound made travelling abroad costly; transport strikes meant getting around was an ordeal for those who stayed put.
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We connect with them ahead of time to understand what their needs will be and coordinate that all in advance to make it easy, because their whole life is an ordeal.
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I've been going through an ordeal with my divorce and I have a business to run, so I don't have a lot of time thinking about what already happened on the show.
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It's understandable: The holiday is an ordeal, but as it approaches (and we get invited to more and more "costume mandatory" parties), it's hard not to want to get into the spirit.
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One adviser who spoke to Trump Wednesday morning told CNN that Trump appeared surprised by the public reaction to his comments about Khan, and how big of an ordeal it had become.
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Sadako's victims have to sit through a full — and very spooky — videotape in order to qualify for her visitations, an ordeal scary enough to have any sensible person reaching for the remote.
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As everyone on the planet knows by now, a dozen boys and their coach were freed after being found trapped in flooded caves in an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks.
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I had not been present for his testimony, and I was not ready to talk to him, but I could tell from his body language that he had been through an ordeal.
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When a Marine veteran from Michigan was freed by Iran in 2016, an ordeal of imprisonment, torture and deprivation that had lasted almost four and a half years came to an end.
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The last four of the boys and the team&aposs 25-year-old coach were rescued Tuesday from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, ending an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks.
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When 19-year-old Sandi Tan embarked on her first feature film in 1992, she had no idea it would be an ordeal that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
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Get the wrong CBP official—or act or look any way that could be interpreted as suspicious—and a routine process can turn into an ordeal that can be both infuriating and terrifying.
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But with more than 1,300 smartphone vendors — just vendors, not models — 30 million instantly streamable songs, thousands of movies, and catalogs upon catalogs of consumer choice, shopping around is turning into an ordeal.
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It was a bit of an ordeal to finally get a meeting with Evan, but when I did ... What did you like, what did you see that you wanted a meeting so badly?
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A serious illness is a nightmare scenario for any couple, and the Cacioppos faced such an ordeal in 2015 when John was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of salivary gland cancer.
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The debate on Saturday came after more than three tumultuous years of division and discord over Brexit, an ordeal that has shaken British politics and tested traditional loyalties, both among lawmakers and voters.
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About 219 passengers were due to leave the virus-hit Diamond Princess cruise liner docked at Yokohama near Tokyo, NHK reported, ending an ordeal that began when the ship was quarantined on Feb.
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The suspect, who was never charged, spent his days holed up in his apartment as reporters staked him out, an ordeal that ended only when he was exonerated three months after the bombing.
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Trips that were once an ordeal become less inconvenient than the average daily commute; provided ticket prices don't negate the economic benefit, the definition of an urban space could be reconfigured as a result.
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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) - After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.
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I also waited as long as possible to buy maternity clothes because figuring out how to dress a pregnant body for the first time, let alone finding great-fitting expandable jeans, is an ordeal.
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The entrance of the 11 into monkhood represented a new beginning after an ordeal that brought together thousands of volunteers from around the world, and that thrust the young Thais into the international spotlight.
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Here's a breakdown of what I bought: The actual cooking process turned into a bit of an ordeal: There were fire alarms and tears, and I had to toss my "yogurt" down the drain.
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I call G. and he meets me outside our building with his debit card (wallet is in his car in the garage we realize, which is kinda an ordeal to retrieve in a historic building).
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In addition to giving back the spotlight to an abuser, he's putting his entire staff and other comics — both famous and otherwise — through an ordeal that I'm sure is very painful for survivors in particular.
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Setting up a freeze is a bit of an ordeal, and I've written a column-length guide to the process and a follow-up on how Equifax was making it needlessly difficult for some people.
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But with a powerful Max-Q laptop tucked away in your backpack, suddenly your morning subway commute becomes less of an ordeal when you can spend the time exploring a whole different world between stops.[Nvidia]
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Speaking to reporters outside the courtroom after the verdict was read, Burga, 60, said the criminal proceeding had been an ordeal for his family and that he was eager to spend time with them in Peru.
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"While no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, Dr. Ford wants to cooperate with the Committee and with law enforcement officials," Ford's lawyer wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Here the truth is no gold medal, no ace waiting to be played; first it's a dark haze of menace circling out of sight, and later it's an ordeal to be survived, possibly even a punishment.
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A Syrian refugee who had been stranded in a Malaysian airport for more than seven months landed in Vancouver on Monday, finally reaching the end of an ordeal that he had documented extensively on social media.
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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.
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While such an ordeal is rare enough that it makes headlines, why should any parents have to worry that letting their kid pick up the cupcakes from the bakery could open a can of bureaucratic worms?
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The bleaching itself was an ordeal, but nothing compared to the nightmare that awaited: being forced to finally navigate the world of hair care and trying to figure out what was marketing spin and what was real.
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Having suffered through four military coups in four decades in Turkey — and having been subjected by those military regimes to harassment and wrongful imprisonment — I would never want my fellow citizens to endure such an ordeal again.
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If this all seems a bit of an ordeal for a milkshake—that the lines between social media and real life are being blurred to the point of triggering alarm or nausea—get a load of this.
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At one point in the movie, Getty Sr. does pull out his wallet, buying a masterpiece while Paul continues to languish with his kidnappers, an ordeal that grows more frightening and byzantine as the clock winds down.
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If she can endure an ordeal like the one portrayed on Lemonade and stay in control, never slipping up, never showing weakness the way we mortals would, she must be a goddess, an inspiration, Queen Bey herself.
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"Even if the law punishes it and gives several definitions for it, the most difficult for women is to get the proof and also to stay strong during the judicial process, which is often an ordeal," she added.
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Back in his old job on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where he has been chief judge since 2013, Judge Garland does not seem like a man unhinged by an ordeal.
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Read These Stories Next:You Can Still Get A Mother's Day Brunch Reservation At These NYC Restaurants23 Gifts That Say "Sorry For Screening Your Calls So Often, Mom" I Bought My First Pair Of Maternity Jeans & It Was An Ordeal
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BB-8 - The Party Animal BB-8 Office holiday parties are always kind of an ordeal, so you need a wingman who can both enable your embarrassing decisions and get you out of dodge when the going gets tough.
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In an ordeal that even Trump admitted caused him problems, the real estate developer would tear the sculptures down, horrifying art and culture experts in New York and landing him on the front page of The New York Times.
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But, as a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London shows, for most of history that visit was an ordeal that didn't involve a dentist armed with anaesthetic and suction tubes so much as a tooth-puller with crude pliers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Friday told a court trying her for negligence that she had always acted in good faith and that the suspicion that she had lived under for the past five years had been an "ordeal".
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The first video of the Thai boys rescued from a flooded cave after 17 days was released on Wednesday, showing them smiling and waving from their hospital beds, looking thin but fine after an ordeal that has gripped the world.
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But for Prime Minister Theresa May, who has endured months of political turbulence, including the recent resignation of Boris Johnson, her foreign secretary, President Trump's impending trip to Britain looks like it could be an ordeal more than anything else.
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It had become something of an ordeal to prepare her husband, Gene Lewis, for this outing; he has Alzheimer's disease, at 79, and helping him shower and dress, insert hearing aids and climb into the car was a very slow process.
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Just reaching her with word that she was now the queen was an ordeal, and in following that thread the series also conveys how the news rolled across the British Empire — a growing shock wave rather than a quick burst.
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How Lucy, when she was very young, was locked in the family truck while her parents went to work, an ordeal that Lucy can't address with her mother, and instead describes to us: I cried until I could hardly breathe.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — For the nearly four years Nizar Zakka was held prisoner in Iran, an ordeal that lasted until he was released this week, the knowledge that he was little more than a political pawn made a bad situation almost unbearable.
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Of course, the "Bad" finale sent the character into the night with a cathartic yell, but there was the little matter of what one does after such an ordeal, especially with that many dead bodies in the rear-view mirror as baggage.
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"There is no doubt that another mandate would be an ordeal for you and for the country," the letter said, talking tough in a country where open dissent has been rare since a civil war with Islamists in the 1990s killed some 200,000.
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But his greatest escape came on Tuesday, when he and 225 other members of a youth soccer team, along with their coach, were all finally freed from the Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand, after an ordeal stretching more than two weeks.
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Beyond financial turmoil, Tumblr was pulled from the Apple App Store briefly last year as it worked to combat child pornography hosted on the platform, an ordeal that led to a new and wildly unpopular site policy banning adult content of all stripes.
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At a meeting in his Capitol office, he warned Mr. Flake, Ms. Collins and others that another week would only allow time for opponents to churn up more trouble for Judge Kavanaugh while prolonging an ordeal for the nominee and his family.
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Williams, 36, gave birth to her daughter, Olympia, last September after a cesarean section that led to life-threatening complications, which made returning to the court more of an ordeal than it has been for some other new mothers on the WTA Tour.
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An American journalist chronicled the difficulties he said he had gone through at Austin International Airport in Texas as he returned from a trip to Mexico in the spring, an ordeal that included agents detaining him and searching his computer and smartphone.
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He was not even 1 1/2 hours into his first match at Flushing Meadows in two years, and while Djokovic eventually would get past Marton Fucsovics 6-73, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 Tuesday, it was a bit of an ordeal.
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It was the end of an ordeal that began in the summer of 2013, when the woman decided to go off-roading with some friends near her home in O'Chiese First Nation territory, not far from the town of Rocky Mountain House.
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The museum — a $400 million warren of scriptural exhibits backed by white evangelical conservatives — is trying to attract more visitors of color in a bold rebranding, but Hetta says he was racially profiled, and illegally detained, setting off an ordeal that lasted for months.
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But for some, assembling a "going-out" look can be an ordeal akin to figuring out a costume — how do you puzzle together an outfit that's comfortable and true to your casual daytime self, yet just extra enough to feel sexy for the after-hours?
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CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - The first video of the Thai boys rescued from a flooded cave after 2359 days was released on Wednesday, showing them smiling and waving from their hospital beds, looking thin but fine after an ordeal that has gripped the world.
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But his filmmaking career was sidelined when he suffered through his own battle with bone cancer—something that led to complications which meant part of his leg had to be removed and replace with metal, an ordeal he even made a short film about.
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" John Coffee, a Columbia University professor who directs the university's corporate-governance center, told the Financial Times that to navigate past investor concerns about the company's structure, market volatility, and a tougher climate for IPOs, Neumann would have to "go through an ordeal of fire.
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McCain first garnered national attention during the Vietnam War, when, as the son of an admiral in the U.S. Navy, he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war, an ordeal that left him unable to lift his arms above his head.
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"Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation," Ford told the paper, ahead of what is likely to be an ordeal characterized by political attacks and fearsome scrutiny of her life, family, mental health and political leanings.
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According to the Lip Kit Queen's Snapchat, Kylie went through quite an ordeal yesterday at Cartier trying to liberate her wrists from the weight of this solid gold tyranny, but it appears not even the store's security guard was able to undo those deceptively evil, tiny locks.
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She was nabbed Saturday afternoon from her home in the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas but is said this morning to be doing swimmingly after an ordeal that involved some manhandling, a bucket, a pram, a getaway truck and a liquid lair, followed by police rescue.
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Granted, it seems like every U.S. channel is snapping up British drama these days to help flesh out its lineup, making this slick adaptation less distinctive; still, there's a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for good mysteries, and adding this one to the menu isn't an ordeal at all.
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Accessibility also means that Cold Spring attracts an increasing number of visitors who compete for parking spots, scuff hillsides and turn the purchase of a chicken Caesar wrap at a Main Street cafe into an ordeal half as long as the ride up the Taconic State Parkway.
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Mayorga described mediation "as re-experiencing the sexual assault," an ordeal marked by "extreme fearfulness, complete helplessness and eventually a sense of passivity where she would do anything just to be able to leave/escape/avoid revisiting the sexual assault by continuing the mediation," the lawsuit says.
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An older couple in a book signing line in Denver, sharing the story of their grandchild, who had an ordeal similar to my Lauren's, but the protection of the ACA; parents relieved that their adult children could stay on their insurance until the age of 26.
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Meanwhile, in regard to Annie, it was gutsy of Toni Collette to take the part, given that she's had less than twenty years to recover from " The Sixth Sense " (1999), and as the new film gets under way she looks stricken, like someone who has already weathered an ordeal.
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Maybe the same process can unfold during in an intense psychedelic trip, which is often likened to an ordeal, a harrowing journey, or even, as Tehseen Noorani, a former psychedelic researcher at Johns Hopkins, once put it to me , "a bout of incomprehensible experiences, perhaps akin to a hazing"?
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MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government said on Tuesday it was sending a navy ship to the Italian island of Lampedusa to escort the Open Arms rescue ship to Spain, in a bid to bring an end to an ordeal that has seen migrants stranded in the Mediterranean for 19 days.
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It's a funny story, sure, but the whole thing went viral when Alexa posted her attempt to GTFO to her Snapchat, and later Twitter, complete with an epic soundtrack (seriously, turn on the sound.) You'd think surviving such an ordeal would earn Alexa her doorknob back, but no such luck.
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Gifting a bundt cake in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (211) What's supposed to be a quiet dinner between the parents of soon-to-be-wed Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian (John Corbett) becomes an ordeal when Toula's proud mother Maria (Lainie Kazan) invites their entire extended Greek family for a massive feast.
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The New York Times reports that an athlete faced an ordeal similar to the one that Lochte and his teammates described: Shortly before the Olympics, Jason Lee, a jujitsu champion from New Zealand, said that he had been briefly kidnapped by police officers and forced to withdraw about $800 from his bank account.
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As she smoked a fat joint outside the library one afternoon, Ms. Tamaura recounted stories of unscrupulous growers she said refused to pay her, of a police officer who she said held a gun to her head, and of frequent sexual harassment, an ordeal made worse by the remote nature of the work.
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The European Union's remaining 27 members have been clear from the jump that their negotiating position would be one in which Brexit is as punishing an ordeal as possible for the UK. And there's a deadline on this whole thing: May triggered Article 50 last year, starting the clock on the UK's March 2019 exit.
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LAGOS, Nigeria — Two and a half years after nearly 300 girls were kidnapped from a school in northeastern Nigeria, the government said on Thursday that 21 of them had been freed, the biggest breakthrough in an ordeal that has shocked the world and laid bare the deadly instability gripping large parts of the country.
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But as Diacre no doubt told her players in that brief, tight huddle, this was a reminder that nothing is written, not yet; that opponents tend to take a dim view of other people's destiny; that home advantage comes at a cost; and that a march to glory is an ordeal, rather than a parade.
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Sitting down exclusively with PEOPLE for this week's issue (on stands Friday), the anchor opens up for the first time about her exit from the NBC morning show in 2012, an ordeal that came complete with gossip-column speculation that her firing had been due in part to a lack of "chemistry" with her co-anchor Matt Lauer.
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Sitting down exclusively with PEOPLE for this week's issue (on stands Friday), the anchor opens up for the first time about her exit from the NBC morning show in 2012, an ordeal that came complete with gossip-column speculation that her firing had been due in part to a lack of "chemistry" with her co-anchor Matt Lauer.
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After barely a year co-hosting Today with Matt Lauer, Curry left the NBC morning show in 153 — an ordeal that came complete with gossip-column speculation that her firing had been due in part to a lack of "chemistry" with Lauer, 60, and amid reports that he had played a part in forcing her out.
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That might not seem so exceptional to those who travel regularly, but it was enough of an ordeal for Qu's mother — who had to secure a visa; take off two weeks around the event, including for travel days; and spent a fortune on airfare and accommodations — that it was the first major trip she'd taken in 23 years.
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The novel—published two and a half years before the discovery and arrest of Ariel Castro, the captor of three teen-age girls in Cleveland, whose story it anticipated in a number of ghastly particulars—is testament to Donoghue's imaginative power, her ability to look open-eyed at the sadistic terrors of such an ordeal without missing its more banal aspects.
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I have also often visited West Bank communities, where I met Palestinians struggling for basic freedom and dignity amidst the occupation, passed by the military checkpoints that can make even the most routine daily trips to work or school an ordeal, and heard from business leaders who could not get the permits needed to get their products to the market and families who have struggled to secure permission to travel for needed medical care.
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And while we may love our families — both biological and chosen — some of us still have to face an unfortunate truth about going home for the holidays: they're going to make us watch terrible TV. Whether they insist on flipping to The Real Housewives of Whatever City They're in Now or have a DVR full of Blue Bloods they want to turn on, coming face to face with the questionable taste of your loved ones can be an ordeal.
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I have also often visited West Bank communities, where I met Palestinians struggling for basic freedom and dignity amidst the occupation, passed by military checkpoints that can make even the most routine daily trips to work or school an ordeal, and heard from business leaders who could not get the permits that they needed to get their products to the market and families who have struggled to secure permission just to travel for needed medical care.
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