She's an albatross, a personal demon that forces him to pay for past sins.
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Suddenly, media is again being viewed as a prized asset rather than an albatross.
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The moniker can become an albatross that can suck the life out of an otherwise splendid career.
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For years, Microsoft has has an albatross around its neck when it comes to its reputation for security.
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In countless ways, the antidumping status quo subverts U.S. competitiveness and is an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy.
That achievement, though, has hung around the club's neck like an albatross.
He did a good thing by getting out, because he's going to help them by getting rid of an albatross around Bush's neck.
But already the statistics were becoming an albatross around Dhoni's neck.
In the end, no money was left and the truck stop was an albatross for my sister, who faced impossible odds before she eventually gave up.
The student loan program is an albatross around academic necks.
And if we refuse to deal with these issues today, then I guarantee you that they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.
Talented as he might be, Price is probably not worth the payout and his contract could be a an albatross for the team should his production fall off in the next few seasons.
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Incumbency is normally a huge advantage in an election, but it's become an albatross, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can ruefully attest after nearly losing his reelection bid to an incompetent, underfinanced and largely unknown opponent.
His sentence of life in prison was meant to serve as a deterrent for anyone who dared question the view that Israel is nothing more than an albatross placed around the US's neck by a powerful American Jewish lobby and by dimwitted politicians.
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On the other hand, if the legislation turns out to be misguided -- or if it is weakened too much in the congressional negotiations -- and fails to stimulate the economy or provide substantial relief to struggling states and unemployed workers, then this bill could become an albatross for Obama and Democrats.
After reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and seeing a photograph of an albatross with its belly full of plastic several years ago, Terry started cataloguing the plastic waste she creates each year, concentrating on disposable plastics (not her laptop or television, but things like food packaging, shipping waste, straws, and so forth).
Earlier Sweden's Asa Gottmo had hit an amazing albatross at the par-five seventh, but she finished with a disappointing 76.
With his acquisition of the All Asia Airways franchise, the wily Marcos crony can start a new airline from scratch - a far cheaper alternative to saving an existing albatross.
Recent comments by unnamed Bush Administration officials strongly suggest that at least the State Department would actually welcome such an outcome, seeing it as an opportunity to relieve the U.S. government of the albatross of an unpopular policy toward Nicaragua inherited from the Reagan Administration.
His first move was to acquire an L-39 Albatross, a high-performance Czechoslovakian trainer, and get it overhauled.
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