• Some parents refuse help and seem to prefer a kind of misery to getting help.

    FORBES: How to Say "No" to Your Mother

  • It should be enough to keep the economic contraction down to 4 quarters of misery.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This change reflects the success of developing countries in hauling themselves out of misery.

    ECONOMIST: Awkward questions about how best to help the poor

  • His description of a wounded Manhattan intricately weaves tales of misery with equally emotional tales of heroism.

    FORBES: In Response To 'New York City After Hurricane Sandy'

  • What if the road out of misery, to prosperity, is axiomatically simple and all else is simply obfuscation?

    FORBES: Kaiser's Postulate: Bringing Free Market Economics to South America

  • There's plenty of misery to go around, hundreds of millions out of work.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Certainly, state interventions that punish industry and frugality and reward sloth and profligacy cannot but facilitate the propagation of misery.

    FORBES: Kaiser's Postulate: Bringing Free Market Economics to South America

  • As the author himself points out, easier divorce alleviated a great deal of misery: female suicide rates and domestic violence fell.

    ECONOMIST: Can you be too rich?

  • After four years of misery, Weill left the credit-card company and began to forge a comeback that would eventually be far more grand and imposing.

    FORBES: Emperor Sandy

  • Many of them will have suffered years of misery, pain and discomfort.

    BBC: 'A sharp intake of breath'

  • While Citi was hardly alone in that kind of misery, the investment banking losses took a more unexpected cut to its bottom line.

    FORBES: Connect

  • In a new wave of misery, some of the refugees near the border may find themselves being moved, or forced to flee, elsewhere.

    ECONOMIST: The great exodus

  • Only then will this process, this attempt to break the cycle of misery and destitution, conflict and violence, stand a chance of success.

    BBC: War on Terror: 100 days

  • Its promises of free health and education, land reform and jobs in state factories and offices did lift millions out of misery to mere poverty.

    ECONOMIST: The long wait

  • It is by learning reading, writing and mathematics that they can break the vicious circle of misery and take their destiny into their own hands.

    UNESCO: WORLDWIDE

  • The Great Personal Computer Bust of 1983 and three subsequent years of misery had taken quite a toll on Noyce, Intel and most of Silicon Valley.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It's the voice of that ideological school whose central doctrine is the proposition that the U.S. is the main cause of misery and terror in the world.

    WSJ: Dorothy Rabinowitz: What Ron Paul Thinks of America

  • Hunt, who also wrote the script, directs a story of misery and transcendence with the kind of diligent efficiency to be expected from an experienced studio toiler.

    NEWYORKER: Frozen River

  • What both groups share is the belief that Angela Merkel is the villain of the crisis whose inflexibility risks dooming entire nations to a never-ending cycle of misery.

    WSJ: Merkel Still Waiting for a Thatcher Moment

  • First, while the magnitude of job loss represents a lot of misery, the American labour force is some two-and-a-half times larger than it was right after the war.

    ECONOMIST: America's economy

  • Game Six between the Yanks-Phillies last year drew 22.3 million viewers which was the biggest World Series game audience since Boston ended 86 years of misery in 2004 with a title.

    FORBES: Baseball Playoff Ratings Likely To Fall

  • With Sally Field as the American Sweetheart who turns into the Queen of Misery, Whoopi Goldberg as her best friend and head writer, Cathy Moriarty as her rival, Robert Downey, Jr.

    NEWYORKER: Soapdish

  • The unrest continues a cycle of misery in eastern Congo, a mineral-rich region at the epicenter of political and ethnic conflict involving its neighbors to the east, Uganda and Rwanda.

    CNN: African leaders sign Congo peace deal

  • The latest unrest continues a cycle of misery in eastern DR Congo, a mineral-rich region at the epicenter of political and ethnic conflict involving its neighbors to the east, Uganda and Rwanda.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Youkilis will play the infield Monday afternoon as the Yankees open up against his old Boston team, which traded him to Chicago last year on the way to a 93-loss season of misery.

    WSJ: Kevin Youkilis: Here, It's Different

  • Even so, if anything in my routine is out of whack -- if I don't eat often enough, or if I become overly stressed -- I can count on one or two days of misery.

    CNN: Stop that splitting headache

  • They included distress tolerance techniques like plunging her head into ice water, devising ways to distract herself when bad thoughts arose and learning not to leap to the conclusion that one bad day implies a life of misery.

    FORBES: Medicine's Suicide Problem, Part 1

  • So after having, he explains, "endured years of misery and gone to enormous lengths to live a lie, " Collins became the first active player in one of the four major U.S. pro sports leagues to come out as gay.

    NPR: 'I'm Gay': NBA Player Jason Collins Breaks Barrier

  • It is significant that the nightmare books of our age have not been about new Draculas and Frankensteins but about what may be termed dystopias inverted utopias, in which an imagined megalithic government brings human life to an exquisite pitch of misery.

    NEWYORKER: The Clockwork Condition

  • But the scenes played-out again and again during that year of misery in mining communities were far removed from the vision of Britain she had projected when she quoted the Prayer of St Francis on entering Downing Street for the first time.

    BBC: The 'Thatcher Factor': My personal post script

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