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Example sentences for: woes

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Enough money for a B-2 bomber is also at stake in the marital woes of Home Improvement star Tim Allen.
The essay takes pains to note that current woes are not the fault of the free market system and that protectionism and regulation are not the answers.
A piece laments the "woes" of Madeleine Albright, whose opinions on Iraq, Israel, and even her pet eastern Europe are ignored by Congress, the White House, and other policymakers.
So you might think that Russia's woes are simply a souped-up version of the kind of financial crises many countries have experienced.
While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."