Both kept their countries calm during wrenching transitions.

There is rubble and the gut wrenching smell of decaying corpses.

Testimonies of gut wrenching ordeals abound on Malagasy forums and blogs.

Gut wrenching images of unspeakable, indiscriminate violence against civilians have shocked the world.

Though the facts of both cases are heart wrenching, their importance extends beyond the courtroom.

Whether Greece, Spain, and other euro zone members will accept such wrenching adjustments remains to be seen.

Add a wrenching European crisis to the equation, and a replay of 2008 no longer seemed far fetched.

The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country s rapid economic modernization.

If taken to extremes, Russian society s response to its wrenching modernization could degenerate into a nationalist revolution led by xenophobes.

The longer this is deferred, the more wrenching the ultimate policy adjustment and its consequences for growth and employment will be.

Maintenance Motorcyclists will refer to maintenance or repair of a motorcycle as wrenching in the USA and spannering in the UK.

As anyone following developments in our region is aware, this is a painful and heart wrenching moment for the Israeli people.

Likewise, transfers to state and local governments, which have limited constitutional scope to borrow, would help slow down wrenching layoffs of teachers, firefighters, and police.

Trapped in the aftermath of a wrenching balance sheet recession, US families remain fixated on deleveraging paying down debt and rebuilding their income based saving balances.

America has now suffered around 30 shooting massacres over the past 30 years, including this year s deadly dozen each is a gut wrenching tragedy for many families.

Last year, five MPs in the Rajya Sabha (the upper house) were suspended for charging the presiding officer s desk, wrenching his microphone, and tearing up his papers.

Such wrenching sights are typically accompanied by the pungent odor of a sewage system that is more a problem than a solution, especially during the rainy season.

EU member states need to rebuild their trust in one another. And European countries facing the need for wrenching structural reforms need to restore social trust at home.

For this reason, the issues facing South Korean public opinion as it decides whether to help with food assistance are not easy indeed, they could be quite wrenching.

Last year, five MPs in the upper house of India s parliament were suspended for charging up to the presiding officer s desk, wrenching his microphone and tearing up his papers.

The bailout is no solution to the fundamental problems that the eurozone confronts at best, it buys time to spread the inevitable wrenching adjustments over time and across people.

Remaining in a currency union with the much more competitive German economy will require wrenching and rapid reforms, for which Hollande s tepid approach will fail to prepare the complacent French.

Suddenly, their saving investment imbalances are harder to fund in a post QE regime, an outcome that has taken a wrenching toll on currencies in India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Turkey.

And as that woman took comfort in her robot companion, I didn't find it amazing I found it one of the most wrenching, complicated moments in my 15 years of work.

I grew up with the sounds of war the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the wailing warning sounds of sirens.

The current global slowdown is not on a par with what occurred in the late 1990 s or the more wrenching shocks of 3 4 years ago at least not yet.

We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.

Ukraine s break with Russia was perhaps the most wrenching, both for those in the Kremlin nostalgic for imperial control and for ordinary Russians who see Ukraine as the wellspring of Russian civilization.

The country s wrenching political struggle over the past several years has, at bottom, concerned what will happen after the ailing 81 year old king s reign, now at 63 years, comes to an end.

To start the discussion, we played a little game of word association with the term terrorist and the responses were ISIS, violence against civilians, heart wrenching, darkness, mass murder, fear mongering, and politics.

Trapped in the aftermath of a wrenching balance sheet recession, US families remain fixated on deleveraging paying down debt and rebuilding their income based saving balances. Progress has been slow and limited on both counts.

All the tiny details we have prepared are painful to contemplate. It hurts to search for old slogans which were a dream for most Syrians, before violence changed us. The photographs of martyrs are heart wrenching.

That has been the case in developing Asia, not just in India and Indonesia today, but also in the 1990 s, when sharply widening current account deficits were a harbinger of the wrenching financial crisis of 1997 1998.

Government spending especially on unemployment benefits, aid to states, and some construction projects probably helped avert a more wrenching downturn, but continued red ink worries households, which are also trying to rebuild savings and reduce debt after a spending binge.

Syria's youngest victims are speaking out in a series of heart wrenching videos which are surfacing on YouTube, detailing the horrors they and their family members have faced in days and nights of their country's revolution against Bashar Al Assad's regime.

The world s major developed economies are not suffering from cyclical deficiencies in aggregate demand that are amenable to a monetary cure. As the Bank for International Settlements correctly points out, they are still struggling in the aftermath of wrenching balance sheet recessions.

When the crunch comes almost certainly in the year or two following the election it will cause radical, wrenching change, perhaps even more far reaching than Charles de Gaulle s coup d état, which led to the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958.

It will fall to the Union, once again, to help transform despair into hope. We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990 s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.