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Example sentences for: pains

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Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.
Stuart Butler, a Brit who runs the domestic-policy shop, has done solid work on enterprise zones, and took pains to develop a conscientious conservative alternative to the Clinton health-care plan.
USAT and the WP front a study being published today in the New England Journal of Medicine that seems to show that the race and sex of patients presenting with chest pains determine the course of treatment doctors pursue.
She is married to a womanizing louse who takes no particular pains to cover his tracks.
It was especially unfair to put a word in your mouth, "intrumentalization," which you have taken pains to avoid--and for very good reasons.