It was as painful a loss as Dodger fans ever experienced, the culmination of blowing a 13-and-a-half-game lead that the club had enjoyed over the Giants in August.
For Ukraine, the loss marked a painful end to a tournament that had started with such promise.
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That will be a painful experience for a wide swathe of industries, from cars through to shipbuilding, defence and beyond.
Croatia split from Yugoslavia in the wars of the 1990s, and is currently going through a painful transition into a market economy.
These time-outs were often triggered by a crisis anything from a painful loss to a life threatening illness though a few deliberately chose to step off the grid when life got out of whack.
Found out I really was a lefty kind of person while in, and that realization was worth a lot, and a source of conflict that was painful for a time until I was free to act on it as an ordinary person.
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Unemployment is at a 15-year high (made doubly painful by a culture that sees welfare relief as the ultimate humiliation).
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But while it's easy to laugh at a Marxist-spouting professor, it's painful for a God believer to dismiss his trusted godly adviser as a crank.
Referendum in itself is not the end but the beginning of a painful journey to establish a viable state.
But earlier in the week, he suffered a painful injury a muscle pull that knocked a rib out of place.
Japan's recent experience offers a painful example of how a collapse in share or property prices can harm a banking system.
World-class performance without a painful ride and with a fair bit of practicality makes us want this car more than a Corvette.
After taking the reins in March 1997, he quickly forced Novell through a painful restructuring, firing a whopping 1, 000 people (including half of the company veeps), rigorously reducing costs and streamlining inventory.
Before then a fund could be penalized for having too large a percentage of its profits from "short-term" gains--a painful rule given that a gain on a short sale is always treated as short-term, however long the position is held.
Really I am, and if you'll hear me out I hope to at least nudge society in the direction of considering suicide acceptable when - and this is the important point - the alternative is a slow painful death from a terminal illness.
There's going to be a harmful effect on many local businesses and it's going to be painful for a lot of folks.
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His father, Gordy Gronkowski, told a radio station in Western New York that he believed Rob would play, but that he'd suffered a high-ankle sprain an injury that's more severe and painful than a typical sprain and hinders the ability to cut quickly.
The painful attack usually occurs in only one joint at a time and can be confused with extremely painful tendinitis, a very bad sprain, or a broken bone, even in someone with a history of diagnosed gout.
Yes, there would have been a deep and painful recession as a result.
The costs could have a direct and painful impact on a family's budget.
That is surely quite different: a painful emergency measure, not a brilliant wheeze for running an economy in more normal times.
The figure represented an increase of 1.1 % from the previous quarter as a painful recession continues to take a toll on the debt-stricken nation.
"It was a painful hour-and-a-half on the court, " explained Simon.
Was it a bruising interaction, a painful self-perception, or a public setback of some kind?
Worrying that to stop injecting cortisone will be too painful is a false palliative.
Look only at Japan for a painful reminder of the implications of a burst asset-price bubble.
Like any detox program, breaking the cycle of Medicaid dependency could be painful for a while.
The result has been painful for a lot of families and communities.
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And this is particularly painful from a philosopher whose field is ethics.
South Africa's unemployment rate stands at 40% (by unofficial measuring), which makes all the more painful such a significant loss of entrepreneurial activity.
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