One study showed patients could put their hands into boiling hot water without registering pain after being hypnotised, when they had earlier experienced intense pain.

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It wasn't intense pain, Cheney told the press two days later.

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Society, in its wisdom, has concluded that inflicting intense pain upon innocent bystanders through a long period of high unemployment is not the best way of discouraging irrational exuberance in financial markets.

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"About eight weeks ago, about five days before the US Open, I woke up and had some intense pain in some areas of my body, some joints and tendons and so forth, " he said.

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"For most people who have some type of treatment, the most intense pain usually is gone within a few weeks, " he said, adding that if the patient had no treatment and the wound healed on its own, there may be prolonged pain.

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Whole villages suffer from the intense bone pain that is typical of acute cadmium poisoning before they realize what is wrong.

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Binder provided medical records that contended the substance abuse was caused by Mr. Plouffe being "wracked with intense physical pain, obsessed with trying to numb it, " according to the federal court records.

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The pain was intense as the maggots tried to get further into the wound.

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The pain may be most intense in southern Europe, where the pressure for austerity is greatest, but the core economies will also be hurt.

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It is hard to think about 20 six- and seven-year-olds and what happened to them on Friday and imagine that, in a few weeks or a few months, that pain would not still be incredibly intense and present.

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