| I had hopes that she would develop her twin strains of doughtiness and dottiness and become a thorn in the flesh. |
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| I had hopes that she, a campaigning journalist, would develop her twin strains of doughtiness and dottiness and become a thorn in the flesh. |
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| The nuggety allrounder has been a thorn in the flesh of Border for a number of seasons and his inclusion will strengthen the home team's attack. |
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| In 2002, when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem. |
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| There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. |
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| This thorn in the flesh is most often understood to have been a physical infirmity that Paul had to cope with on a recurrent basis. |
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| For the last four years the actions of this brave, independent Egyptian author has been a thorn in the flesh of his colleagues. |
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| Somalia is still a thorn in the flesh for the Horn of Africa and East Africa. |
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| The thorn in the flesh, one concludes by default, was a complaint of the spirit. |
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| From my early years, I have winced at a thorn in the flesh, and to this was also connected a consciousness of guilt and sin. |
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| To some people it is a thorn in the flesh, because extremists are in political control there. |
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| In the new digital environment the free public offer of the PSB is a thorn in the flesh of many commercial media players. |
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| I cannot be like a thorn in the flesh of someone else. |
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| The Chinese side has known for many years that re-education camps have long been a thorn in the flesh of the European Union, because they certainly do not meet the normal international standards of human rights. |
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| Job had not seized the cause of his humiliating testing but Paul understood it because of the light he had received from above and particularly through God's refusal to exempt him from his thorn in the flesh. |
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| In view of the extraordinary nature of these revelations, to stop me from getting too proud I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me and stop me from getting too proud! |
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| I quote from his 2nd letter to the Corinthians: «That I should not get above myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan to batter me and prevent me from getting above myself. |
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| Even individual castles could be a thorn in the flesh of a powerful kingdom. |
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| Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the post of the Executive Director of the Kenya Roads Board has been a thorn in the flesh of the Minister. |
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| But some disagreed, most famously the eminent mathematician and perpetual thorn in the flesh of probability theorists, the French mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. |
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| The target of his ire are clearly groups like Norm UK, which since its inception five years ago, has proved to be a thorn in the flesh of the pro-circumcisionists. |
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