When its smartphone badges practically demand a pause for breath, you know there's a problem.
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Leighton was taken to hospital on 29 November 2010 after he began "gasping for breath".
That makes the downturn in the tar sands less a collapse than a pause for breath.
Back on their feet and gasping for breath, the wrestlers dusted themselves off and politely bowed to one another.
In heart failure, a weakly pumping heart allows fluid to build up until patients gasp for breath.
She wept as she described how she found Matthew gasping for breath and then called for help.
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The court heard the girl was screaming with fear that she would die and was gasping for breath.
The sound of a baby struggling for breath with whooping cough is as distressing as it is distinctive.
And as people get squeezed by the financial correction, they gasp for breath.
But now that investors have paused for breath, they can see that the economic outlook is still pretty murky.
While they pause for breath, America's investors must try to gauge whether the stockmarket's impressive bull run has finally ended.
The jury heard that Mr Davison called an ambulance on the morning of 12 April reporting that Kristal was gasping for breath.
Yet, though the Dow Jones has fallen by 16% from it peak, the technology-heavy Nasdaq market has barely paused for breath in its ascent.
Is this latest fall merely a longer pause for breath because would-be buyers have been winded by war worries, or the precursor of something more serious?
The main symptoms are severe coughing fits which, in babies and children, are accompanied by the characteristic "whoop" sound as the child gasps for breath after coughing.
Izzard on humour is similar to Izzard on anything: a quasi-performance full of long, evocative phrases that run into one another with not a lot of pauses for breath.
Outside the Factory, bicycles are lined up, joggers pause for breath and dog-walkers take a seat alongside Brooklyn residents, all admiring the towering views of Manhattan from the calm of the shore.
Continental economies, never robust, are increasingly gasping for breath.
Just a few years ago, the twin blocs of countries in favour of and opposed to whaling slung verbal darts at each other all week long with barely a pause for breath.
Unlike the relief rally when the EU bailed out Greece in May, investors this time barely paused for breath before continuing to dump Irish assets, as well as those of Portugal and Spain.
Though Iran has been in turmoil since a stolen election in June, there has been no sign that its nuclear programme, controlled directly by Iran's clerical supreme leader, not by its politicians, has paused for breath.
Cases of the bacterial disease pertussis, nicknamed for the "whoop" sufferers sometimes make as they gasp for breath after a long coughing spell, have risen from 1, 010 in 1976 to over 25, 000 today, according to the CDC.
The British teen-ager -- the only one to know what happened before the boy was rushed to the hospital -- described her panic when the infant woke from a nap, gasping for breath with his eyes half-closed.
The 24-paged editorial, shot by photographer Steven Meisel, captures model Kristen McMenamy, covered in black grease, writhing about in feather dresses on a rocky, post-apocalyptic-looking beach, evoking the real-life images of oil-coated birds gasping for breath that dominated coverage of the spill.
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Tellingly, it begins with the image of a sickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.
With a barely a moment to pause for breath, the 51st minute saw former Bath winger Higgins cross the whitewash for his first ever try in an Exeter shirt, soothing the frayed nerves of the vociferous home support, as Davis added the crucial conversion.
My father spent his last months on earth bedridden and straining for every breath.
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