| A mariachi was singing about the travails of life and working his guitar hard. |
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| This acid comedy satirizes the romantic travails of artsy twenty-somethings. |
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| She joined the summer fieldtrips in 2002 and 2003, and has been the lab scribe, logging the group's daily trials and travails. |
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| Not that they aren't used to the travails of erratic power supply and the lines going phut whenever it starts raining. |
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| And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission. |
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| You may be sure that, given David's recent alimentary travails, I shall be examining whatever he gives me next with especial care. |
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| As if Argentina's energy problems were not dire enough, its travails have spilled over to other segments of the Southern Cone. |
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| What is a challenge worth when there is no prize in the end to make up for the travails? |
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| I thought of the price of fresh ingredients, transport, overhead costs and the travails of a seasonal business. |
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| The travails of building reactors with indigenous technology is competently related in the book. |
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| Of the four feature films showing this year, two are primarily concerned with the travails of bi-curious heterosexuals. |
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| Pardew believes Ba's observance of Ramadan precipitated his earlier travails. |
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| Finally, do these performances, which date from 1978 to 2003, cast light on his subsequent travails? |
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| Some ministers seem happy to remain inconspicuous and thus disassociated from his travails. |
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| Tolstoy, to name one artist, managed to spin a decent yarn or two around the travails of the extravagantly wealthy. |
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| War service, for example, transformed the attitudes of many aristocrat officers, who shared its travails, however unequally, with the peasantry. |
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| There is also truth in the idea that the government's travails are not unalloyed good news for Labour. |
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| By discussing her mammary travails so openly, Jolie runs the risk of messing with the fantasy. |
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| Nor has the story of his travails done much to convince people that Mr Perry actually is mentally capable of reciting a list of three things. |
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| The goal of Operating Thetan is to overcome the travails of existence and regain the certainty and abilities of one's native spiritual beingness. |
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| Even through all of today's travails, even as I was slogging through my workout, there was this little glow of contentment inside me that nothing could extinguish. |
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| Instead, each was seeking the freedom from life's travails that comes with casting off from shore. |
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| Splinter groups of communists and Trotskyists fought for supremacy on the shop floor, calling workers out on strike and typifying the industrial travails of the time. |
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| Reader, I didn't: I went and read a New Yorker profile of Professor Mary Beard's travails with misogynistic trolls instead. |
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| A harrowing boat ride and a stint as a refugee in Thailand were just some of the travails. |
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| For all his legitimate straining to be perceived as a bona fide artist, Jack makes his best work when he goes tabloid, turning his amorous travails into juicy tell-alls. |
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| Pushing to excess casualty stories and other travails of military conflict are many plebeian sensationalists who fail to place such issues in proper perspective. |
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| The whole history of Western film and TV is mostly the travails of wealthy people with problems only the wealthy can understand. |
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| The current travails of the stock market and relatively poor showings of several recent high-profile flotations may be temporarily swaying Wavegen's hand. |
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| If we continue to allow our fears to overwhelm us, then we may create a generation completely unequipped to cope with the travails of their own lives. |
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| After a Labour Party conference that sometimes sounded a little too pleased by capitalism's travails, the Tories stood up for the market without exonerating bankers from the charge of irresponsibility. |
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| Thus, the encounter with Gould affects both characters decisively for almost three decades, as they experience an endless series of personal and intellectual travails. |
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| That quip reflected his own travails with thinking outside the box. |
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| After many travails and vicissitudes, at the beginning of November 1914 Conrad managed to bring his family back to England. |
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| Selkirk's travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. |
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| Yet as the 17th century began, and despite her travails, Spain was still unquestionably the dominant power. |
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| Although the old adage suggests that money can't buy happiness, the data does suggest that it helps individuals deal with the travails of modern living. |
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| So, two weeks out from defending his French Open title and just shy of his 29th birthday, it was no surprise to hear him dissect his travails here with typical candour. |
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| Bahrain's Shia majority, and the minority Saudi community that lives above the kingdom's oilfields, have long chafed under Sunni governments that happened to be America's friends. Yet such travails have not united Shias. |
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| It was he who guided us through the travails of early adulthood. |
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| According to this chick flick, read Pride And Prejudice enough times and all your romantic travails will be over. |
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| If the gold standard of a UNESCO listing is adulterated, such discussions lose their edge. Meanwhile, UNESCO's private competitors see the travails of the heritage list as symptomatic of wider problems. |
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| These twilit travails are recounted with a dry, self-deprecating wit. |
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| Despite his travails with Afrikanerdom over the years, he retains the tribal veneration for rugby and as he goes through his visit schedule he makes sure there will be time to watch an upcoming Springbok match on television. |
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| As bioluminescence roiled around my ankles, I waded toward a white sand shore fringed with palms to where several thatched villas set in foliage awaited, and the travails of the long odyssey effortlessly evanesced. |
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| Courtly intrigue The futility of coca eradication ReprintsMr Fachin's travails have little to do with jurisprudence and everything to do with a power struggle between an unruly Congress and an enfeebled president. |
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| Better information in countries of origin, focused on the travails that can await in Europe, has been called for by migrants who do not feel the rewards of the journey match its arduousness. |
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| Here we seem to be gripped with the trials and travails of one of our colleagues and a former prime minister, yet thousands of people are losing their lives in this conflict. |
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| Like you and like us, they went through the travails of mundane life. |
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| Many buildings reflect the travails of these people, including the quarantine hospital, the monuments to the dead and the burial sites, particularly the Irish cemetery. |
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