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maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
When people first fall in love, where they first feel infatuation, sometimes logic goes out the window, there's lots of data showing that logical thought patterns sometimes get lost in the fray when someone really is very attracted to a person or they're feeling the throes of passion. – Deborah Carr	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Astronomers have suspected that stars undergo violent eruptions or death throes in the years before we see supernovae, this star's discovery provides some of the most direct evidence ever found that stars experience catastrophic eruptions, which cause them to lose mass before an explosion. If the star was having these eruptions, then it likely expelled its hydrogen several decades before it exploded. – Charles Kilpatrick	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Take them outside the throes of work and have an off-site discussion that shows you care about them as a person. Reaching out is very important. – Leigh Stringer	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We, as a government, have opted to re-look at the (Papua LNG) agreement because it was signed at a time when we were in the throes, or in the process, of changing the government, it's about weighing it between the nervousness of the investors and the pain and suffering of our own people ... by consultation you will be able to test the threshold of tolerance and then find that balance. – Kerenga Kua	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
China's equity market is currently in the throes of a pledged-shares meltdown. – Diana Choyleva	Found on CNN 5 years ago
These are the last throes of the separatist terror group. These are also the last throes of their extensions. – President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The biggest takeaway is that the Republican establishment is in its death throes. The only remaining candidates are 100 percent anti-establishment. – Mark Meckler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Though many people may not realize it, we are in the throes of a mental health state of emergency. though many times this is understandable from a legal and public safety standpoint. – Skid Row	Found on CNN 9 years ago
What's striking is that they were very careful to select patients who weren't in the active throes of a heart attack and who didn't have an alarming ECG, and both the physicians and the patients still overestimated the risks. – Daniel Munoz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. – Philip Sidney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Some of the best truths for which to live were realized in the throes of death. – El-Mahdi Holly-Haile	added by anonymous 14 years ago

maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

When people first fall in love, where they first feel infatuation, sometimes logic goes out the window, there's lots of data showing that logical thought patterns sometimes get lost in the fray when someone really is very attracted to a person or they're feeling the throes of passion.

– Deborah Carr

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Astronomers have suspected that stars undergo violent eruptions or death throes in the years before we see supernovae, this star's discovery provides some of the most direct evidence ever found that stars experience catastrophic eruptions, which cause them to lose mass before an explosion. If the star was having these eruptions, then it likely expelled its hydrogen several decades before it exploded.

– Charles Kilpatrick

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Take them outside the throes of work and have an off-site discussion that shows you care about them as a person. Reaching out is very important.

– Leigh Stringer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We, as a government, have opted to re-look at the (Papua LNG) agreement because it was signed at a time when we were in the throes, or in the process, of changing the government, it's about weighing it between the nervousness of the investors and the pain and suffering of our own people ... by consultation you will be able to test the threshold of tolerance and then find that balance.

– Kerenga Kua

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

China's equity market is currently in the throes of a pledged-shares meltdown.

– Diana Choyleva

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These are the last throes of the separatist terror group. These are also the last throes of their extensions.

– President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The biggest takeaway is that the Republican establishment is in its death throes. The only remaining candidates are 100 percent anti-establishment.

– Mark Meckler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Though many people may not realize it, we are in the throes of a mental health state of emergency. though many times this is understandable from a legal and public safety standpoint.

– Skid Row

Found on CNN
9 years ago

What's striking is that they were very careful to select patients who weren't in the active throes of a heart attack and who didn't have an alarming ECG, and both the physicians and the patients still overestimated the risks.

– Daniel Munoz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

– Philip Sidney

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Some of the best truths for which to live were realized in the throes of death.

– El-Mahdi Holly-Haile

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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