| On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate. |
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| Above all, he carries conviction because he is like one of us, always wracked by doubt and uncertainties. |
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| Sitting down beside him, Brenna wracked her brain for a conversation opener. |
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| Many isolated Inuit communities are wracked by substance abuse and grinding poverty. |
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| The anguish that she felt came pouring out and she cried, shuddering as the sobs wracked her body. |
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| Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse. |
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| We cannot have a high-functioning industrial economy if the key commodities that fuel it are produced in regions wracked by terminal instability. |
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| The idea of a wild chaotic continent wracked by poverty, drought and tribal warfare is challenged by images as well as words. |
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| Devon struggled to speak through the convulsive shivering that wracked his body. |
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| In the sickbay, Renny's body wracked with a sudden spasm, ripping off one of the monitors. |
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| He clutched his stomach and doubled over, as silent sobs wracked his frail body. |
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| What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every major city every year? |
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| She had demonstrated her dedication to the House back when she was pregnant with twins and wracked by morning sickness. |
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| In Sunday's episode we saw him weeping, wracked with guilt, and trying to give away the millions he earned in the meth business. |
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| In the course of the 19th century the Western world, and Europe in particular, was wracked by profound geopolitical upheavals. |
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| Featuring wracked sheep, a bloodied, blooded fop, Dr Frankenstein and his monster . |
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| Baghdad and other cities are wracked by small arms and remote bomb ambushes and by mortar and rocket attacks, and are closed to commercial air traffic. |
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| While leprous signs wracked the entire body, notably disfiguring the face, making public a private sin, it was on the genitals that the first signs of syphilis would appear. |
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| As it still is today, the NSW division of the party was wracked with factional fighting and in the grip of lobbyists. |
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| Jagland admitted that the 27-member bloc was not in great shape, wracked by its worst crisis of confidence. |
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| Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth. |
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| Even in a capital wracked by partisan fighting, this should be low-hanging fruit. |
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| The Coalition parties themselves are wracked by tensions and divisions, and there are concerns among the ruling elite that the situation could well explode. |
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| Protection from land confiscation depends on settlement of the conflicts that have wracked the country for more than half a century. |
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| Liberals wracked up those great surpluses talking about economic management. |
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| While the American contestants were more serious in their competitiveness, they were wracked with guilt about demonstrating individualistic, competitive qualities. |
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| He looked inwards at his wracked body and mind, then his shining soul. |
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| It has been wracked by decades of war and is one of the poorest countries on Earth. |
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| Let us look at the behavioural standard that has been set by the department and the Liberal government that is wracked in scandal. |
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| Nearby Bahrain has been wracked by protests and riots, and just across the Persian Gulf is a nuclear-arming Iran. |
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| He blinked as pain wracked his body and paralyzed him momentarily. |
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| The very instant he touched it, his whole body was wracked by pain. |
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| He is wracked by fear and exhibits signs of having been tortured. |
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| I must admit that the week before we left I was wracked by anxiety over the idea of crossing the ocean, but in fact, once we were under way it was fine. |
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| Of course, now that I'm here, I'm suddenly wracked with uncertainty. |
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| Sobs wracked my body, and I heard a guttural cry like a wild animal come from somewhere deep within me. |
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| Dear old Martin saw the early 20th century as chockers with these decisive moments and he was wracked with anxiety in case he missed the crucial event. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the Liberals stood by for years while the forestry industry was wracked with lawsuits from the United States, with incredible countervail taxes from coast to coast. |
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| Jupiter is orbited by Io, a body wracked by intense volcanism, while Saturn's largest moon, Titan a body larger than the terrestrial planet Mercury exhibits a primitive atmosphere denser than that of Earth. |
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| When I consider my suppurating private life: my greying hair, my body's abandonment of anything resembling skin tone, I'd have thought I was wracked with, say, inoperable despair, but it isn't so. |
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| Moving with remorseless strides through a D minor darkness of turbulent pulsations, wracked by storms where 'hungry clouds swag on the deep',6 a trombone-like theme cries from the depths. |
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| It was the second round of talks since Tibet was wracked by anti-Chinese rioting in March. Protests continued in the South Korean capital, Seoul, against the resumption of imports of beef from America. |
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| Is there a higher moral and ethical value that we need to consider if we want to be helpful in that area of the world that has been wracked with difficulty for such a long period of time? |
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| On the one hand, parts from wracked cars are reprocessed and sold. |
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| Yet how can we prevent disease in a society wracked by unemployment and poverty, in which we are witnessing the reappearance of diseases that we thought had been eradicated, like tuberculosis? |
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| As Caritas Colombia Secretary General, Hector Fabio is dedicated to bringing peace to a country wracked by over 40 years of violent civil conflict. |
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| Five months earlier, in March 2004, Kosovo was wracked by violence. |
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| In Iraq, daily television images showed a country wracked by insecurity, living in fear of attacks, lacking even a minimum of well-being, while multinationals took delight in the country's wealth. |
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| Just as over the past few decades, lives around the globe have become increasingly intertwined, so today, as our world is wracked by crisis, globalization is uniting our destinies in unprecedented ways. |
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| Eleven mm of rain on the 24th and 7mm on the 25th wracked out nerves, and we pinned all our hopes on a window of opportunity in the middle of the week, waiting another day for the grapes to become perfectly concentrated. |
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| Whether in societies wracked by armed conflict, criminal or interpersonal violence, widespread armed violence can impede the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. |
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| Most of us believe that Mr Milosevic has played a signal and criminal part in the instability which has wracked the region for the last decades, which has produced countless deaths, misery and impoverishment. |
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| Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth becomes wracked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed. |
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| The Whigs were wracked by internal dissensions during the second half of 1851, much of which Parliament spent in recess. |
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| From 2005 through to 2007, the country was wracked by many thousands of protests from poor communities. |
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| On the European continent, wracked by social upheaval, the first peace congress was held in Brussels in 1848 followed by Paris a year later. |
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| By the end of his third voyage, Columbus was physically and mentally exhausted, his body wracked by arthritis and his eyes by ophthalmia. |
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| In a system wracked with class conflict, government by a 'strongman' was often the best solution. |
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| Blinded and scarred in one eye where his parents tried to treat conjunctivitis with herbs, Lodwar is malnourished and wracked by tuberculoid coughing. |
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| The once mighty Ottoman Empire was wracked with a series of revolutions, resulting with the Ottoman's only holding a small region that surrounded the capital, Istanbul. |
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