If that's not going to happen, Dumas says Greece will suffer more from prolonging the agony.

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Trying to prevent the housing markets from going down merely prolongs the agony.

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Mr Clarkson has said he emerged from the accident "in screaming agony", with bruises to his leg, back and finger, but has since made a good recovery.

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Ultimately, he likely made the right call from a PR perspective to stave off further short term brand agony, but his reputation is irreparable regardless in the lose-lose race created by his own hand.

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Knight had no option but to withdraw from the E3 Class opener in Ponts, Spain after he was left in agony.

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One mother of two who did not wish to be identified used the over-the-counter allergy and motion-sickness medicine Phenergan for a recent flight from Australia to the US. She said the first eight hours of the flight were "agony" and that she used the medication as a last resort to help her three-year-old daughter sleep.

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That agony burns deep in the families of thousands -- thousands of Americans who have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over these last 100 days -- including Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed on her way to school less than two months ago, and whose mom is also here today.

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While Mr Stora's book (a translation, at times awkward, of three volumes in French) encompasses the whole narrative of modern Algeria, from the first landings of the conquering French, through their ignominious departure and on to Algeria's present agony, Irwin Wall contents himself with just one episode of that narrative: the struggle for independence.

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