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Example sentences for: ordeal

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Orlando Patterson writes in his new book, The Ordeal of Integration , that government programs have helped many African-Americans to join the economic and cultural mainstream, but the programs can't be expected to further expand the black middle class.
Will a flicker of emotion crease his usually impassive glare as he ponders a she-said, he-said fact pattern so hauntingly reminiscent of his own ordeal five years ago?
Exhausted by the ordeal of trying to deny poor people a capital-gains tax cut, the editor turns this space over to his colleague, Cyrus Krohn:
In it, says the paper, Lewinsky says she's no longer in love with Bill Clinton, that she's through having affairs with married men, and that she wants to apologize to the country for the yearlong political ordeal she helped trigger.
But whose ordeal is it?