For Democrats, the most painful decision is how far to go in making changes to entitlements like Medicare and Social Security.
The CEO made the painful decision to let the bragging salesperson go.
Appel took the painful decision of pulling out and, in a well-timed deal, sold DHL's stake in DeutschePostbank to Deustche Bank in September 2008.
While in class, I complained to another dad about the painful decision of saving my back or my knees while assisting children with their cutting and gluing.
"The first and most painful decision we made was that no one of us was going to succeed my father, " recalls Roberto Irineu Marinho, the eldest son and onetime heir apparent.
"The forgiveness of God cannot be denied to one who has repented, " the Pope said, adding that he has met "many women" scarred by the "agonizing and painful" decision to have an abortion.
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Knox called the decision "painful" but said she was confident that she would be exonerated.
So every decision is very painful, engages lives, has a huge impact on how people live, whether they live or not, and if you take that responsibility seriously it can be quite heavy.
The decision wraps up a painful expansion exercise for the retailer, but it isn't the first international food chain to have trouble with the vast and diverse U.S. market.
Mr Guttenberg eventually stepped down in March - a decision he called "the most painful step of my life".
They said making that decision can be a difficult and painful process because of the strong feelings and different viewpoints.
Halting debt payments was the second big decision - making it even more painful was that as chief financial officer she had made many of the original deals herself.
This decision had to be all the more painful for it being accompanied by a truncation of his Information Awareness program, a smoking crater where the PAM project was to be and his reputation once again sullied by people who are unworthy to hold John Poindexter's coat.
For a company like Apple (AAPL) that relies heavily on Japanese partners for critical components for its iPhone and iPad, the decision to keep its supply chain lean has painful implications when faced with the disruption caused the Japanese disaster.
He sat out the tech boom--a painful call when high-tech stocks soared, but a decision that now looks prescient.
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