Now let's look at the balance of policies that we have worked out in agonising ways over many years in Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding a Better Way for Canada] Reference

Pain ... agonising pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Finished Stargate SG-1] Reference

Mandela, who said he would stick by his "agonising" decision of the week before to end diplomatic ties with Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Related article: Spanish press exults in 'agonising' win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Epic Games 'Cliff Bleszinski has said it's "agonising" not being able to talk about the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eurogamer] Reference

And, more importantly, elections are a form of political agonising which is based on non-violence.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

He conceded that it is impossible to remain unmoved by the "agonising" cases made public recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

Amy Winehouse has been rushed to hospital after complaining of "agonising" pain in her surgically-enhanced breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musicrooms.net] Reference

Dr Williams admitted anyone would be moved by the recent 'agonising' cases but insisted the law should stay as it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Are not made helpless in his hour of agonising need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891] Reference

The hands of the clock moved with agonising slowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

It is agonising for Sue to be so far away from her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sue Wassef: My son is in an Egyptian jail for drug crimes he didn't commit] Reference

The agonising desire to change its position shows this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

Penatus, who was famous for curing this agonising pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

And his words revived the agonising thoughts she had crushed down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

And O now, very soon, comes the agonising rapture of seeing her again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Substance of a Dream] Reference

If the result is positive then the parents will face an agonising choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A working life: The pathologist] Reference

He had been shot through one hand, and there is no more agonising injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference

That encouraged the press to deduce that I was agonising over my decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

Now followed an agonising period, two and a half weeks long, of interregnum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

There was nobody to hear the agonising sobs that shook her from head to foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

British wounded at the end of the line had a dreary, long, and agonising wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

Death in these labour services was gradual, always wretched, and usually agonising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer] Reference

All smiles at Taunton except when agonising over what is happening at Trent Bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [County cricket - as it happened!] Reference

Terror, agonising, soul-shaking terror such as she had never imagined, took hold of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

After much agonising Strauss was dropped after the Oval Test against India in August 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [A drop of indignity could help Alastair Cook regain his Test form] Reference

We know cases in which agonising pain was thus removed years ago, and it has never returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

As he listened to the sergeant's tale, an agonising fear smote him for his friend M'Alister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

Our most agonising repentance cannot undo the past, it can only avail to safeguard the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

It moved with agonising slowness, and he bit his lip as a fresh stab of pain shot through him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

There was darkness, too, and an agonising jolting: plainly I was carried on one of their ponies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the Dragon]

After one of their many agonising and circumlocutory "walks" Himmler turned to his aide and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

The fact that yet another pair of ears should have heard the tremendous news was agonising to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

The agonising cry of the helpless man was drowned in a tremendous outburst of applause from the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

But many an agonising prayer rose to heaven, and at last, though they little expected it, succour was nigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

To many of us the anticipation of an unpleasant happening is far more agonising than the actual thing itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

Waiting, listening, agonising, the tom-tom growing louder and louder -- or was it only the throbbing in her own head?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheik] Reference

Trevannion tried to raise himself by his right arm, but the limb gave way with an agonising shoot of pain; it was broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference