Crane says events where legislators read lists of his honors have been moving but painful.
But this must be complemented by organizational improvements such as a change of management, revision of standard practices and even downsizing, a necessary but painful measure for many companies.
That is much stronger than the US, where growth is forecast in to be in the low single digits, but painful for Chinese companies that have enjoyed rapid expansion.
Not the same in terms of suspected criminality but spectacularly painful for investors nonetheless.
In the long run probably a good thing but a painful transition.
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Given the current political climate and implicit anti-bailout mandate of the new Congress, the Federal government might be powerless to do anything but accept painful state defaults.
The euro zone faces two different but equally painful problems.
That high price, of course, is that once its systems operate on the cloud, the company loses its ability to control its own computing capabilities and has the unintended, but nonetheless painful result of suffering security problems and diminished service quality that makes the company wish that it had never taken the fateful step of putting its computing on the cloud.
That would be painful for some businesses, but not as painful as a crash that could result if leverage keeps getting piled on leverage.
But there's more to this story - described in painful but fascinating detail by Brian Reading in a new report for Lombard Street Research.
Many patients say their symptoms were not painful but more like an ache or discomfort.
Such a prospect would encourage hospitals and doctors to accept a painful but necessary reform now.
Campaigners said the policy was unethical and painful but the Pentagon said it was saving lives.
All this regulatory turbulence is part of a painful but necessary process of airline development.
But while the painful transition goes on, the most painful bit has been removed.
The treatment of a stone that is painful but small is hydration and pain medicine.
The results are a painful but instructive lesson in the dangers of American arrogance.
Most electric fences built for security purposes repel trespassers with a painful but exceedingly brief pulse of current.
After the flood, the mopping up is long and painful but things do get back to normal eventually.
In 2009 and 2010, Boyazny was vocal about the painful but necessary process of delivering global financial institutions.
President Obama is working from the assumption that the political leader who suggests painful but necessary budget cuts first, loses.
Another plus from the Sogo saga could be less future intervention in the painful but necessary culling of unsalvageable companies.
But even this painful escape route out of the fiscal and economic mess will be beset by traps and ambushes.
Once Greece goes, most analyses of the exit process say it will be painful but containable, as long as it does not spread.
As a result of the financial crisis, many REITs cut common stock dividends as part of a painful but necessary cash flow strategy.
Responding to his comments, Business Secretary Vince Cable said the "painful but very necessary" cuts had been brought on by Labour's mismanagement of the economy.
Speaking to BBC Sport earlier this season, he put his England nightmare down to a painful but inevitable low in the career of a football manager.
Recessions are the painful but necessary corrections of those imbalances, when businesses readjust their production, processes, and workforces to better fit the demand for their products.
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