| In Scotland the ordeals of sitting on the repentance-stool or cutty-stool were most frequent. |
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| The strained limbs in his bronzes of ballerinas behind the stage expose the ordeals necessary to simulate an effortless grace on the stage. |
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| Her real ordeals begin when her husband starts to assume responsibility for his recovery. |
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| However, in spite of her ordeals, Ms Brown has never let it stop her, even taking part in parachute jumps for charity. |
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| In men, the scars often indicate social standing or physical ordeals of individual valour. |
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| Clients will have the chance to speak to others who have suffered similar ordeals. |
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| Purified and ennobled by their ordeals, they will from then on, live together in peace and harmony. |
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| The Afghan people have always managed to preserve their unity, in the face of repeated ordeals. |
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| After countless series of ordeals and purifications, after the hard trials to reach Perfection, they will go back up into the Azure. |
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| In June a book by a journalist about the hundreds of thousands of families who have experienced such ordeals became a bestseller. |
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| The multitudes need those who know how to be strong during ordeals, those who are accustomed to the great battles of the world and of the spirit. |
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| Consequently, the exaltation of warlike virtues is in proportion to the dangers, ordeals and horrors confronting us, for better or for worse. |
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| When released, detainees are often required to promise not to speak about their ordeals in detention or face arrest and detention again. |
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| We must be able to look at those ordeals head on and clear-sightedly. |
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| This signifies that after many ordeals, Saturn was trying to settle the score. |
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| Nevertheless, the solo recalled the dangerous sacred ordeals of an initiation rite. |
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| I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals. |
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| On camera, refugees recounted their ordeals and lamented the loss of something precious: their books. |
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| It was indeed his bravery and nobleness that helped him endure some of the worst ordeals a human being may suffer in life that deserve our deepest admiration. |
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| They stand up to the ordeals of the treatment with the help of their loving parents and of the medical team that is as warm-hearted as it is professional. |
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| After ordeals that would do in a lesser woman, all ends well. |
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| It is therefore vital to develop an urgent response to these problems and to ensure that the Community measures recently adopted do not ignore the ordeals of workers and their families. |
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| Also, I think we should not give so much weight to the status quo, because parents who are willing to submit their kids to these terrible ordeals should not have custody, period. |
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| I believe that had this bill been the law of the land and these deterrents had been in place, Maher Arar, Abdullah Almalki and others would never have been subjected to their horrific ordeals. |
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| To some are reserved some ordeals and to others different ones. |
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| Thanks to the psychological support received, they gradually recover their self-esteem, which has been undermined by ordeals endured, usually from a very early age. |
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| An attempt to see, to see fire develop, to undergo its ordeals, to understand its transformations, seeing the next image appear in the disappearance of another. |
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| But if it is used in the retrospective way, it enables one to foresee the coming ordeals and to determine the criteria according to which the project will be evaluated at each stage. |
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| One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent. |
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| Most are too fearful to talk openly about their ordeals. |
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| The consultant, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, also endured other ordeals to prove that he was worthy to be a sangoma, or healer. |
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| The ceremony opened with a Bison Dance, followed by a variety of torturous ordeals through which warriors proved their physical courage and gained the approval of the spirits. |
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| This stage may be marked by ritual ordeals or ritual training. |
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