In a case like this, where phase 2 is not conclusive, the decision becomes agonizing.
For some, applying for benefits can be an agonizing process that takes more than two years.
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All that time and energy spent agonizing over every em-dash and semicolon, for naught!
Lillehei closed Pamela's chest anyway, agonizing while her heart labored to regain its regular beat.
And Dany is still agonizing over her lost dragons in the great city of Qarth.
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The mayor still has not chosen a treatment, and the decision is clearly agonizing for him.
Now for some New York City families there may be an additional, agonizing twist.
In July, a Screen Actors Guild strike delayed production for three more agonizing months.
We lose our mothers, friends, and sisters after watching them go through agonizing treatments.
She was agonizing about whether to reach out to the contact for a job she really wants.
Waiting for answers during the desperate rescue effort is taking an agonizing toll on the Sanchez family.
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Honestly, I prefer the competitive multiplayer simply because the zombie mode can be so agonizing at times.
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If the affluent are agonizing over such questions, so, too, are Americans in general beginning to debate them.
After agonizing, Ramon Lobo's parents and two younger siblings moved to California, leaving Ramon behind in the family house.
And was this an agonizing decision in the end or was it an easy decision for him to make?
After seven agonizing days, Yost was released from the medical center in Lancaster.
He managed one last, agonizing push to the finish line, as blinded and enraged as Samson in the temple.
Last June, Wallenda captured the nation's attention during his 25-minute agonizing amble above the roaring rapids of the Niagara.
At the same time, Congress must realize that overseeing an offensive CIA will be an uncomfortable, sometimes agonizing chore.
In the living room, Rodgers's television continued to update the agonizing reports of deaths and mayhem at the finish line.
The next possible team I saw for Ben was Pittsburgh at no. 11 and that would be two more agonizing hours.
They're sitting at the bar with their friends Instagramming and tweeting while the rest of us are agonizing over browser choices.
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Some very creative and determined pessimists at the FCC have managed to turn a thrilling victory into an agonizing defeat.
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Alderson said there was no deadline for such a decision, and hours later Davis delivered his biggest hit of an agonizing season.
Markets are presently agonizing over QE2, wondering what Chairman Bernanke is thinking.
Internally, we're agonizing over if we should include a stereo RCA cable.
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As the experience in many other countries shows, there is no reason for the U.S. Postal Service's agonizing decline and impending collapse.
It was our grandparents who really experienced the long and agonizing war.
Mr. Hern said he made his way back through the smoke, searching for several agonizing minutes, with his ears ringing from the blast.
If I did it all again I would try to speed up the development phase and waste less time agonizing over glitches and headaches.
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