How To Use Agonize In A Sentence

But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty.
I felt very strongly that it was not a good deal for shareholders," said Mr. Sack, adding that he has "agonized" over proceeding with the suit. Applebee's Director Plans Suit Over Price
He displayed the agonizer between two fingers, and waited. Firestorm
No belief flowered in the grim Elasian face, but the agonizer's threatening touch lifted. Firestorm
The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01

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And you've only antagonized terrorists and exponentially increased their numbers by being there. CNN Poll: Afghanistan War opposition at all-time high
The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning (or "abdicated") king and the Prince of Wales.
I will not let your secret out to agonise the man I love.
The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round. The King's Achievement
agonized screams
The dry overhead lights stitched silver sparks along the agonizer's edges. Firestorm
Viewers in those days were agonized by his notion of justice and fair play!
WHEN DANII LICKED HER LIPS AND PRESSED HIM BACK on the bed, his expression wavered between excited—and agonized. Deep Kiss Of Winter
The snap of the agonizer's activation cells echoed through the little flyer. Firestorm
The last time we see him, he has turned his back on his remaining parent and is walking away by himself, a small, agonized figure dwarfed by the huge, impersonal lobby of the school.
Chekov's first instinct was to spit at him, but he decided that wouldn't be wise, considering how quick to make use of his agonizer Oben seemed. Firestorm
The BBC, like a well-kicked hound, does not in its post-Hutton malaise wish to antagonise politicians. BBC is 'confusing cause and effect' in its Israeli coverage
Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said. The Creators A Comedy
But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style.
This was the more proper because, in a few years after the beginning of the community, European revolutionists were to be scourged with the Syllabus, whose every word agonized the souls of unworthy advocates of liberty. Life of Father Hecker
When the media focus our attention on the aftermath of disasters, it is easy to empty our wallets for the agonized sufferers.
Controversial blogs are shut down, and chatroom moderators kick out participants who post comments likely to antagonise the Communist party.
I would love to say that I have agonized long and hard before arriving at this decision.
The worst example of this, 'Ballad in Plain D', reveals why in its agonisedly raw account of his final scene with Suze ( Expecting Rain
We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action. Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
He was less aggressive today but we played against a team that also wanted just to play football and not antagonise him.
Catholics of this persuasion," Sheed writes, "agonized more over their own bourgeoisification than over any outside danger. Catholics
She decided that she did not want to antagonize Cardoni; she did not want him thinking about her at all. WILD JUSTICE
But he visibly agonizes over the fact that, as a 56-year-old man with decades of experience, he's competing with people half his age for low-wage jobs. Andy Kroll: Unemployed: Stranded on the Sidelines of a Jobs Crisis
I personally don't think we should be given more powers because it would just antagonise people.
After five months of agonized debate they signed the treaty.
Let's not agonise over the people's choice in an election where no choice was offered.
In Athens she will wear a headscarf and tracksuit pants when she runs; she has no wish to provoke or antagonise.
The man gasped agonizedly and went to his knees, but his tall mate lunged in, in ferocious silence, raining blow on blow so furiously that Valeria had no opportunity to counter. The Conquering Sword of Conan
It looked very peaceful seated in that fold of the hill, no tossing of trees about it, though a little higher up the slim oaks and beeches of the copse were flinging themselves about against the grey sky in a kind of agonised appeal. The Marriage of Elinor
But great will be the joy of that furacious individual, as he speculates in secret on the increased demand of his agonised public. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
Adding spironoloactone to fur - vasoconstrictor can cause necrosis because of the osemide (frusemide) provides no extra diuresis, but absence of collateral circulation. does antagonize the potassium loss that occurs when the latter drug is used alone. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business. The Monster That Ate Congress
He had already become hostile and she didn't want to antagonize him further. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
What should be a simple question of wildlife management becomes an agonised playing off of the rights of birds against hedgehogs, and comparisons of different methods of hedgehog death.
Smooth magazine she is "half-Italian and half Cape Verdean," and that she was routinely "antagonized" by kids at school over her mixed race. Philly.com - Latest Videos
Dozens of agonized male faces are packed together like grapes in a wine press, veins bulging from their temples.
Now that he was moving, he was agonizedly considering his problem: What was Our Mr. Wrenn
Many of my friends disliked the film intensely - even if they had admired it on some nebulous level, they were antagonized and revolted, irritated and unappreciative.
Once, you agonized over whether to replace the transmission in a 7-year-old car or visit a showroom.
The single glimpse she got sufficed to show the tears coursing down and the agonized scrunch of the features. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ.
He said it would 'antagonise local people and business owners'. Times, Sunday Times
The fairy twin brother of the devil one went back to England and took pills after festers caused by AIDS have dotted all over him, leaving his late life mate agonise alone.
But will the government dare concrete over the region to help key workers get a foot on the housing ladder when this would be sure to antagonise Nimby voters in marginal constituencies?
Despite some telling moments (as when the king agonises over his impotence), the play remained costume spectacle, the actors trapped in old world natak stylistics.
They insisted on trying to antagonise me. The Sun
Then came the downstairs bath and kitchen remodel, for which Raquel agonized over everything from faucets to light switch plates.
A pale yellow sky rose behind the brick neighbourhood, and with agonised soul the woman viewed its plausive serenity. Esther Waters
For years, gift-givers have agonised over what to buy relations who happen to be grumpy teenage boys.
She simply agonises over how to describe what she does when a camera is pointed at her, saying that she feels more like a performer or a circus turn than an actress.
Its military campaigns and parades served only to antagonise the nationalists.
For those people who already have substantial hearing loss, researchers are also optimizing compounds that antagonize specific cell cycle proteins resulting in new cell division or proliferation.
I must admit that I agonised a bit about this because I felt it was a small gesture that would have little effect and give more pleasure to the person sending the card than the recipient.
He added that the update 'looked almost deliberately designed to antagonise its audience'. Times, Sunday Times
This is effective not because it lowers serum potassium concentration but because it directly antagonizes the membrane depolarizing effect of hyperkalemia.
He said he had agonized over whether he should stand on the podium to address the rally until an hour before the speech.
Then there was the case of the agonized apiarist: "My bees have swarmed away from their hive," he or she wrote on a Laurel Canyon email list. Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving!
This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others. Letters and Journals 02]
It called Calvary, the hill where Jesus agonized, “The shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land.” CLEAR PICTURES
Tanis started to speak, but his faltering words were submerged in an agonized, inarticulate roar; a roar of mingled fear and terror and rage that was so beastlike, it wrenched everyone's thoughts from the dragons. Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas
There is no doubt that this full exposure to experience incorporates involvement with pain, suffering, hardship, distress and agonised emotions.
NO and PGI 2 may antagonize the biological action of ET 1 during endotoxemia.
In his autobiography Russell reports this sad interlude with agonized regret.
The meridional and circular muscles antagonize the radial muscles.
She decided that she did not want to antagonize Cardoni; she did not want him thinking about her at all. WILD JUSTICE
With America seemingly losing its influence in the Middle East and Europe drowning in a terrible economic crisis, the Arab world agonizes over its lack of democracy and economic development. Tulin Daloglu: Turkey's New Activism in the Former Ottoman Lands and Continuing PKK Attacks
Yes, half the night was spent in agonised discussion of such minor stupidities, when all that was necessary was to call the whole thing off!
At 285 volts his response can only be described as an agonized scream.32 Born to Believe
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
Left in charge, he temporized, agonized, and cursed the fates.
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
Though a former sugar beet negotiator for the NFU, she even managed to antagonise a group which should be loyal backers - farmers - when she suggested in January that direct subsidy payments should be abolished. Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn
There is no clinically tested antidote available to antagonize the psychotomimetic symptomatology induced by PCP.
To watch him agonize over some of the tough positions he took was to appreciate the complexity of a man judged harshly and often simplistically. He Knew He Was Right
An insensitive rising power can all too easily make enemies and antagonise new friends. Times, Sunday Times
The set-up is horror-film heaven - three Norwegian filmmakers on a road trip through Louisiana stop to take in the local colour and end up being antagonized by a madwoman.
Why don't you use that agonizer on yourself?" he snarled, nodding at the tiny device hanging in wait on Oben's belt. Firestorm
Jim watched agonizedly as Matt got the mustard-can and JUST MEAT
Cohen said he has seen anxiety increase among some clients who use Facebook because they focus too much on how many friends they have, or worry that others aren't posting enough items on their walls, or fret about what to write in their status updates, just as they agonize over what to say in person. Can Facebook help overcome shyness?
Another approach is using drugs to antagonise the peripheral effects of opioids so that bowel dysfunction is reversed, speeding discharge from hospital.
The boxers attack each other and then one boxer suddenly freezes as he makes contact while the other one steps away, agonizes over their mistake or rethinks a move and then steps back into place just as they both begin to fight again. Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout"
When the heat became intolerable, he tried to publicly put the blame back on the Legislature, and, as you noted, his former allies like Jim Tucker felt "antagonized". Your Right Hand Thief
This has prompted the usual agonised questions about the future of the printed book. Times, Sunday Times
His shaft was throbbing under her fingers… he seemed in torment, his expression agonized as she worked his engorged flesh. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
After five months of agonized debate they signed the treaty.
… if the concept of Davis and Walsh was tenable, the morphine antagonists nalorphine, naloxone, and so forth would antagonize short-term alcohol intoxication as they do specifically for morphine-like drugs.12 Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
She agonized herself with the thought of her loss.
Cardinal Connell antagonised Anglicans on several occasions with his remarks about intercommunion and the Church of Ireland, but relationships are likely to improve with Martin at the helm.
Does Barney Ronay's lack of integrity mean that he has to write articles that are purely there to antagonise and attract comments? Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
His antimilitarism and acid comments on ‘the military mind’ will probably antagonize many present-day soldiers.
As much as it sucks (and I am not looking to antagonise you with this) Microsoft will always try and better things for the users in general, which sometimes comes at the cost of the few. The Windows 8 Concept Desktop | Lifehacker Australia
But it had been enough to father nightmares for more than a year, and to make him awkwardly excuse himself from a class at the Security Academy during a lecture on what the agonizer did to a victim's nervous system. Firestorm
The other two cats aren't openly hostile to her, but they seem to want to antagonize her.
Honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen: After World War 11 the citizens of Newfoundland were in agonized indecision as to their future course: whether to continue the Commission Government, "go it alone" as a separate country, or become Canada's tenth province. Principles and Approaches
Back in my day, we didn't worry about self-esteem or agonize over feelings.
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week.
They possess a remarkable capacity to antagonise and alienate. Times, Sunday Times
Both coalition parties are strongly unionist but they took the view that being forceful in their opposition to independence would antagonise Scottish voters and play into Salmond's hands. Coalition comes out fighting against 'catastrophic' Scottish independence
Joe's agonised cries reached up to the tree tops.
Nothing to intellectualise, moralise or agonise about. Mail and Guardian
Diane didn't want to antagonize Ed, because sitting in the car next to him felt good. A MEANS TO EVIL
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
On the last morning of the term allowed him for reflection he received that hurried note from Rickman, who had flung all his emotions into one agonized line, "For God's sake wire me what you mean to do. The Divine Fire
Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
Jose Manuel Barroso's desire for a second term prevents him from doing anything to antagonise the French government. Archive 2009-05-01
I agonize that my sanity will implode as the lines of reality blur while I try to find a footing in this new definition of my life. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
She had no wish to antagonize this man who might be of use to her, and she sensed the change in him almost before he was aware of it. A WORM OF DOUBT
We agonized for hours about which wallpaper to buy.
One day she came home from school to hear agonised wailing. Times, Sunday Times
Spirit "agonize" in prayer as the Son did in Gethsemane? The Kneeling Christian
To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
It would be dangerous to antagonize him.
If microfilaments antagonize microtubules, this uneven distribution of microfilaments should affect microtubule morphology.
Don't antagonize your boss
With the agonized reach of his rigid left arm and the crucifixate tilt of his crossed feet, the defrosting mummy struck a pose that wouldn't look out of place in a 14th-century altarpiece.
Many policy-makers agonise over this situation; it's very worrisome, because it is so difficult to steer the right course on these very delicate matters.
For all he agonised and fretted, he never fell apart.
But realising the futility of such a course, I held my peace and waited agonisedly. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Suddenly her head went back, her mouth opened in a long, agonized wail, and became peal after peal of uproarious laughter. THE THORN BIRDS
For a few agonized seconds, I wonder: was it there before?
Counting begins at 9am in 39 constituencies and the agonised waiting also starts for some 400 candidates vying for a total of 153 seats.
People agonize over buying washing machines and homes, but all spending is important, Mr. Edelman says. How You Can Get a Raise This Year
Once again this weekend, with a predictability that might be noteworthy were it not so dreadful, the country is busily tearing itself apart as the rest of the world looks on in agonised bemusement.
Another man rushed up, lunged at me and shot by, to crash against the stairfoot with an agonised yell. The Gates of Noon
Redmayne portrayed the young, increasingly disillusioned assistant to Rothko, the abstract expressionist who agonizes over whether to accept a lucrative commission for the Four Seasons restaurant. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » The 2010 Tony Awards Are Handed Out
Dozens of agonized male faces are packed together like grapes in a wine press, veins bulging from their temples.
In addition, as she noticed these things, an agonized cry rose up from the hut, in a voice she knew all too well.
One contemporary observer gives this account of Wallack's performance as Victor Frankenstein: Mr. Wallack's personation of the agonised student, whose fatal curiosity, and still more fatal success, was sustained with great feeling and talent. Cast and Characters
So I was agonized by their fear and insecurity - the backlash.
Again, telling porkies about your car will do nothing but antagonize the salesperson and once again you will find yourself being screwed over.
Ziprasidone may antagonize the effects of levodopa and dopamine agonists.
All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out -- Life on the Mississippi
Both reactions would, of course, antagonise my grandmother, only making her more paranoid. Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal
There's been much talk today about the lack of "rancour" as Liberal Democrats agonise amongst themselves over how to vote in Thursday's Commons decision on tuition fees. BBC Ouch! Blog
Nick, he used to agonize for two days before getting up the nerve to call you on the phone and invite you over for dinner. A KING'S RANSOM
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room. ROUGH JUSTICE
While you agonize of whether to go with the peach fragrances or the lavender skin restorer, you should try to keep in mind what such gifts say to her.
We didn't go out of our way to antagonise him, indeed we tried to avoid all contact.
All the time they agonize and pray.
We cut paper up into strips and squares, annoyed the guy at the copy shop, xeroxed the puzzle a few times and agonized over it for the better part of a night, finally getting the picture figured out around 8 am.
But I find it hard to imagine that Hugo Cabret would have raised eyebrows very high, much less "agonized" folks in the field of children's literature, ten or even twenty or thirty years ago. Archive 2008-04-01
But he quickly antagonises local people who want the land to be owned and used for the community's benefit.
Neil Kinnock agonises again at his bad luck in having an impossibilist strike that he could not support dumped on him. Paul Flynn - Read My Day
We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action. Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
We agonize about these decisions, for ourselves when we are contemplating living wills, or for relatives and friends, only or mainly because we take our and their critical interests into account.
His groans of pain, his agonized body bathed in an icy malarial sweat, resisted all her efforts to calm or comfort him. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Of course it might be impolitic to antagonize these groups.
He liked his neighbour and didn't want to antagonize him.
If I had my druthers, the new movie would feature - an outright conflict with the Mirror, Mirror universe; rip in the space-time continuum, BAD Federation meanies decide that it's great for their individual and multiple ambitions, and someone invents a giant, planet-sized agonizer. What Would You Like to See From The New Star Trek?
Who knows how many favours the Comic Relief powers-that-be had to call in, but they managed to open with a clip of The King's Speech – intercut with scenes of Lenny Henry pointing agonisedly to his watch as Colin Firth stutters in the sports ground and telling him they've only got seven hours to get everything in. Comic Relief's mix of mirth and misery done to a turn
She peered over at Arthur, agonisedly Nothing Anna sipped on her drink, `His father was a seaman. BEHINDLINGS
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
Lady -- dear lady, have pity upon me! "shrieked the agonized wretch, her countenance hideously distorted, and appallingly ghastly, as it was raised in such bitterly earnest appeal toward that of the avengeress. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
The biggest drawback to this plan is that it will antagonize opponents of outsourcing.
He angled the chair away from the agonised man, looking up at the high ceiling, smoking impassively. THE SCAR
He agonized over the guilt that he felt.
After their evening ritual of giggling over a table game and reading stories, Karen sent her son outside to play until bedtime while she agonized over the checkbook.
Nick, he used to agonize for two days before getting up the nerve to call you on the phone and invite you over for dinner. A KING'S RANSOM
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
I will not let your secret out to agonize the man I love.
They were too much engrossed in the figure fronting them, and agonisedly, with cheeks white and bosoms heaving, they waited, in their dread suspense. The Trampling of the Lilies
The Rev Chris Swift, a parent himself, agonised over a form of words for a situation he hadn't faced before.
With a kingdom crumbling, plotters plotting, fates conspiring, and his soliloquies ever more agonised, he's doing tragedy right now. Times, Sunday Times
If my intense desire to see the friend, from whom I have parted, does not bring him from the other side of the world, or take me thither; if the mother's agonised prayer that her child should live has not prevented him from dying; experience certainly affords no presumption that the strong desire to be alive after death, which we call the aspiration after immortality, is any more likely to be gratified. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
The single glimpse she got sufficed to show the tears coursing down and the agonized scrunch of the features. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
This pressor effect of atropine appeared to be unrelated to the sympathetic mechanism, as it was neither potentiated by cocaine nor antagonized by tolazoline.
To Pernelle, his voice was that of a man who had agonized a thousand times over insupportable alternatives. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
If I had my druthers, the new movie would feature - an outright conflict with the Mirror, Mirror universe; rip in the space-time continuum, BAD Federation meanies decide that it's great for their individual and multiple ambitions, and someone invents a giant, planet-sized agonizer. What Would You Like to See From The New Star Trek?
Evelyn Duenos "agonised" over the decision to sell her virginity to the highest bidder but decided it was the only way to raise money to support her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
Rather than being a speech over which Sir C "agonised", "tossed and turned" etc this was WRITTEN BY HIS PAYMASTERS Turner and Newall who have sent thousands to early graves with their blue and brown poisons ... with Sir Smith's blessing. Asbestos Loving Criminals: Rochdale Lib Dems
And no wonder: He still touches audiences with a musical spirit that, as pianist Murray Perahia put it, "floats, that searches, that agonizes, that exults. New Work, New Instrument
Weingartner seems to be agonised by the fact that today's twenty-year-olds are the ‘used car generation’, voyeurs and poseurs who have nothing to express but a lack of confidence and narcissism full of envy.
His brain was dazed and still surging with the terrible thoughts which had agonized him the night before.
It is unwise of Walcott to antagonise Fabio Capello with the account in his book of the severity of life with England while he is still in the squad. Amid the gloom, much to cheer in Arsenal's scrambled win over Udinese | Kevin McCarra
I fully admit I have gone out of my way on more than one occasion to needle and to antagonize him.
For once, goaded out of her measured correctness, the Duchess became vital, vehement, agonisedly energetic and passionate. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
Internationally administered, they would not take up any country's space or antagonise local communities. Times, Sunday Times
She had no wish to antagonize this man who might be of use to her, and she sensed the change in him almost before he was aware of it. A WORM OF DOUBT
The pair, with Engels, continued to agonize over a clear definition of what they meant by the term communism and over a statement of principles—a mission statement—for a communist party. Emancipation
Till then, find someone else you like reading, and stop reading my blog if it antagonizes you.
One actor in this film never comes alive, and the other seems too agonised and solemn for the role.
This is not to say that he was not agonized by risky decisions he needed to make with regard to his career as a sage.
These villainous bipeds do fearfully exorbitate mine ear," said the agonised musician. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business.
John Letford may well have been having "serious problems" within the Labour group for a number of years and he may well have "agonised" over this decision but the man was elected on a Labour ticket and consequently he has a duty to his constituents to serve them under the Labour banner. Archive 2009-03-01
But this libertarian view antagonizes both the diversitarians and the majoritarians more than anything, more even than they antagonize each other.
For example, oxytocin's calming effects are enhanced by estrogen, but antagonized by androgen, she notes.
In his excitement, Bryza seemed to have forgotten that his irresponsible statements and actions, during his stunt as U.S. negotiator on the Karabagh (Artsakh) conflict, had antagonized some of his Washington colleagues and many others in the Caucasus. Harut Sassounian: Obama Can Now Replace Bryza With a New Nominee as Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Cytokinins may reduce the effect of sugars on acclimation processes in leaves, as elevated cytokinins enhance greening and leaf protein levels, and antagonize senescence responses.
Civil servants, ministers and the pensions industry agonised over how to interest the public in this arcane subject.
It's a very delicate situation and I've no wish to antagonize him.
Bhubaneswar, Nov 02: Asserting that the Orissa and central governments had "failed miserably" to protect Christians from the violence unleashed by Hindu rightwing groups, five top bishops in the state said they were "agonised" by the belated response for help. Zee News : India National
Selenium appears to antagonize cadmium, especially in acute exposures.
His expression was agonized, those fangs sharp and glinting. Deep Kiss Of Winter
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
He watched, agonized, as the floundering horses found their footing in shoulder-high water and drove forward, blundering through the ice-crusted shallows.
He had already become hostile and she didn't want to antagonize him further. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
If a present-day Darwin were to agonize over his matrimonial fate in what ways might it differ from the example above?
I obsess over it, agonize over it, ruminate over it.
Sometimes they lasted ten minutes, sometimes half an hour, but when they happened his whole body was locked in an agonized paralysis. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Many Namie residents continue to agonize over the possibility that they may have deserted fellow citizens who were awaiting rescue. Would-Be Rescuers Still Haunted by Japan's Disasters
Governments continue to agonise about ways of reducing the road toll, through speeds, more police, double demerit points, more advertising.
The doctor diagonised that his backpain was caused by a slipped disc.
We don't want to antagonise him, but he's got to appreciate the facts. The Sun
Apart from anything else, we're not living under a military regime - it just antagonises the uncommitted middle ground, who are the very people we want to win over.
Even before he had buried her, he had begun to try to exorcise the memory of her final bewildered, agonized week.
I looked up at him and saw the agonized pain in his expression.
Diane didn't want to antagonize Ed, because sitting in the car next to him felt good. A MEANS TO EVIL
My friends are down from Cambridge and I don't want you to antagonize them.
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
When our "free" press agonizes over whether it should challenge the "facts" of societal elites, is it any wonder why so many people have lost faith in it? William Astore: The Failure of Our "Free" Press
Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855. The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
The agonizer … it … The warehouse seemed suddenly frigid, and he hugged himself against a soul-deep chill. Firestorm
I remain unconvinced that the occupation forces are really helping the situation, instead of continuing to antagonize large sections of the people.
Why go out of the way to offend and antagonize religious people?
She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues.
After all that time with the agonizer, they don't know how to feel anything but pain. Firestorm
My stomach is agonised with a terrible wrenching distension. Times, Sunday Times
Kasrils said he still "agonised" over his decision to lead a group of ANC marchers through a hole in the stadium fence in a bid to circumvent the security cordon preventing the crowd from entering Bisho. ANC Daily News Briefing
Kira's face appeared again, her expression taut with an agonized fury. Proud Helios
In these areas they exercised civil control, did not allow entry to non-military persons without permission, and in various ways antagonized the inhabitants.
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
They did not agonize over why they were fighting or whether it was worth it. Matthew Yglesias » The War
The tortured girl writhed, twisted and tore agonizedly at the thongs which imprisoned her wrists. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room. ROUGH JUSTICE
From this realization, Ken let out an agonized cry of pain as tears began flowing down harder than before.
Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised.
With a gesture that revealed the shopwalker, he led Syme down a short, iron-bound passage, the still agonised Gregory following feverishly at their heels. The Man Who Was Thursday
The brusque style of Washington has managed to antagonize its best friends by means of anachronistic ukases and its treatment of allies as unruly children.
On his deathbed, a family patriarch agonizes over being able to recognize his grandchildren.
Smartphones have given gangs an 'almost unlimited opportunity' to antagonise each other, she added. The Sun
And she has adopted a "fabulous" new hairstyle -- dreadlocks -- so that she no longer has to agonize about her perpetually frizzy hair. An Interview with Anne Lamott
Once we'd sobered up, we agonised most of all over the theft of the champagne.
There he stood, slightly inclining forward, his hands clasped in agonized supplication, his eyes blinking twenty to the second, and at every few words spoken he jerked his head towards the doctor, opening his mouth in a gape which was meant to convey a combination of assent and astonishment. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
You don't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries, especially not on their own ship in deep space.
I absolve him - though I would not do the same for all his cabinet colleagues - of a desire not to antagonise the voters to whom the Conservative advertisement was meant to appeal.
Twenty minutes after a single bolus dose, it may be unnecessary to antagonize the block when the train-of-four has returned to normal and fade is not present to a tetanic stimulus.
I will not let your secret out to agonise the man I love.
The face which had been drained of all expression quickened into agonized feeling. Studies in love and in terror
thorn-crackling" and a little forced, the thing ends with the famous and magnificent _epiphonema_ (as they would have said in the old days) to Oxford, which must for ever conciliate all sons of hers and all gracious outsiders to its author, just as it turns generation after generation of her enemies sick with an agonised grin. Matthew Arnold
No other architect has made the slow, ponderous, collaborative business of construction into such a direct expression of his demented, agonised, fertile soul.
Since I don't write very quickly, this tendency makes most any review I write take agonized hours.
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
He has continually ‘put himself about’ in a way which is bound to alienate colleagues and antagonise the general public.
Conclusions:This result indicated that some dose of Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zinc agent and Dimercaptopropanol could markedly antagonize on lipid peroxidation of the mice exposed to Arsenic.
Not how will you aggravate him, challenge him, dare him, antagonize him, and make an enemy out of him.
Where Hughes, convulsed with adoration, agonised over the "engineering problem" of simultaneously freeing and confining her breasts, she simply threw aside the seamless, aerodynamical "bullet" bra he made for her and covered her own with Kleenex to achieve the same effect. The Economist: Daily news and views
His groans of pain, his agonized body bathed in an icy malarial sweat, resisted all her efforts to calm or comfort him. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
If a present-day Darwin were to agonize over his matrimonial fate in what ways might it differ from the example above?
The use of neostigmine to antagonise neuromuscular blockade may increase bowel motility and result in a higher rate of anastomotic leakage.
Once, you agonized over whether to replace the transmission in a 7-year-old car or visit a showroom.
With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Languagehat.com: UNCLEFTISH BEHOLDING.
That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
Despite Alan Pardew's side sitting unbeaten in third place in the Premier League, the announcement looks set to antagonise relations between the board and the fans, which had been improving thanks to the team's performances. Newcastle risk fan fury with St James' Park rebranding
Unfortunately, moments before, a couple of girls had decided in agonised tones ( "There's people over there" - "Shell, I have to") that they would have to join us. August 25th, 2004
However, it is worth asking whether the reason we all agonise fairly ineffectively about reconnecting the public with the political process is that, in truth, politics itself does not matter that much any more.
This was why the longer he reflected the more agonisedly certain he became that his ward was right to be faithful to the man she loved, right to join her life to his. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
President Lincoln accepted the horrendous casualty reports without protest, but he must have agonized over them in private.
I make decisions easier now and don't agonize over them like I used to - the pendulum and Tarot have helped me greatly here.
Cordelia's agonised invocation and summons to the unpublished forces of nature, to be aidant and remediate to the good man's distress, is continually echoed by the poet, but with a broader application. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
At the exact moment those words had left his lips, an agonized cry echoed down from the bell tower.
He wondered if the other Watcher felt this kind of agonized pleasure from Theo's touch. Watcher 3] Fire Watcher
In all this agonized talk about what we are, we were beginning to forget what you are.
Before his mission to Britain, Karski agonised over what action the Allies could and would take to stop the murders in the ghetto and camps – if they believed him. Earliest eyewitness account of the Holocaust finally to be published in UK
Her ankle joints made an agonized hiss, ball sockets crisscrossed with score marks from the sand. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
Still, there are sharply etched performances from Duncan Bell as the agonised Christopher, Hugh Ross as his hedonistic brother and Juliet Cadzow as a maternal nightclub hostess.
It was not necessary for us to agonise over the state of the retina or retinal vessels through a small undilated pupil.
She knew that she could do everything twice as fast as Jeremy and Helen, that she was often so impatient of their slow progress at lessons that she would beat her foot on the ground in a kind of agonised impatience. Jeremy
She was shaking now, her whole body shuddering in tight, agonised MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
She didn't appreciate the simple things in life until she returned as a ghost to Grover's Corners, relived one day as her 12-year-old self, and asked the question all pre-teen girls agonize over while performing Emily's big monologue at theater camp: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it? Teresa Strasser: I'll Miss You, Toxins
Marc Lièvremont may have thought he was being clever when he described England as "an insular country" disliked by all their opponents but, if so, he has picked a desperately risky week to antagonise les rosbifs. Six Nations 2011: England brush off taunts from France
The slogans antagonized his customers and often got him into ideological hot water.
If it was me," replied Amy, "do you think I'd be sitting there clasping my hands agonisedly? Left Tackle Thayer
It was totally unprovoked - we had not done anything to antagonise them at all. The Sun
He knows he's not supposed to dwell on what was or agonize about what might be.
I lamented my misfortune in picking someone so completely incompatible and agonized for weeks.
The use of the opiate antagonist, naltrexone in the treatment of autism is reasonable since it antagonizes endogenous opiate receptor activity.
Jeremy Herrin's production, filled with resonant hymns, captures precisely the oaken rituals of public-school life while conveying the agonised unhappiness of the boy-hero. South Downs/The Browning Version – review
She gave an agonized cry as they lifted the fallen branch from her leg.
They agonise over every shot, crouching on the green as they plan the putt that could win them that precious round of golf.
Peggy antagonises Pat by taking her clean sheets to the launderette to be rewashed.
But you've got to be careful not to antagonise the away fans. The Sun

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