The Bank of England's monetary-policy committee has been agonising for months over whether to raise them.
Defending champion Murphy has suffered some agonising final-frame defeats this season but came through this time.
Forget for a moment the agonising over turnout in the police and crime commissioners' elections.
Every step towards the impeachment inquiry was accompanied by agonising over how the public would take it.
There then followed an agonising wait as the soldiers, increasingly restive and indignant, demanded to be let out.
Above all, the letters reveal a deepening love between the pair, despite agonising separations that sometimes lasted months.
Although Mrs Lederer did not invent the agony column, her readers' problems seemed unusually agonising, some alarmingly so.
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By the day of her operation, in December 2009, she had stopped working because of the constant, agonising pain.
But Gillespie turned the ball into his own net in an agonising finish.
The most agonising thing about the whole case was that so many people had stopped them and questioned them.
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Some Democrats think their party's agonising selection process will produce a battle-hardened nominee backed by legions of fired-up supporters.
They love consulting focus groups, agonising over policy documents, finessing tight parliamentary votes.
We haven't been forced to see agonising pictures of dying children and adults.
First-choice Saints half-backs Leon Pryce and Kyle Eastmond joined the club's lengthy injury list during last weekend's agonising defeat to Leeds.
It faces an agonising choice: to back the euro with almost unlimited taxpayers' funds, or risk the break-up of the single currency.
How about ending the agonising over Britain's place in the European Union?
They stressed it required Obama to make a difficult and agonising decision to authorise the actual mission, against the wishes of many advisors.
Some progress is being made, but as in a marathon, it is the second half of the race that is the most agonising.
She died an agonising and slow death at home which, though it was never proved, bore all the hallmarks of poisoning by strychnine.
Attacks can be agonising, with uric acid crystals deposited in the joints, particularly the knees, feet and ankles, though occasionally the elbows and wrists.
After months of agonising, Janet Reno, the attorney-general, decided not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Mr Gore's fund-raising in the 1996 campaign.
And in many ways it was even more agonising for Serbia, who finished the match one goal away from snatching second place away from Ghana.
The council said it was having to make some "agonising" decisions.
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Despite ups and downs in the relationship, Germany and France have been the designers and shapers of the EU that the British are now agonising over.
Kevin Maguire, the Daily Mirror's associate editor, said David Miliband had been agonising for months over the decision, which he told his brother about "weeks ago".
Grocery shoppers will hardly relish being stuck in a queue behind someone agonising over their investments, and most check-out clerks would be unqualified to offer advice.
Former patients told the GMC how they were left in agonising pain, unable to have children and with permanent injury after being treated by Mr Neale.
But Paraguay's joy was Japan's agony as Yuichi Komano's spot-kick brushed the crossbar and flew over as the Blue Samurai's tournament came to an agonising end.
Instead we bump along believing that dieting and body image preoccupations are just fun rather than the agonising, havoc-causing experience we actually know them to be.
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