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20 Sentences With "comes to grief"

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Pet death is one of those gray areas when it comes to grief.
I do not like to talk about my feelings of sadness when it comes to grief.
This is a richly immersive film that argues for the value of rituals, especially when it comes to grief.
Back stories in the form of memories can be useful when it comes to grief as a way of withstanding loss.
It's a bad story, and not without precedent: "Macroeconomic populism" has a long history in Latin America, and usually comes to grief.
No stranger to declamation, Mr. McKellen lends a welcome softness to Lear's decisive "howl," as if what matters most is not the decibel level but the sense of psychic excoriation as the wayward monarch comes to grief.
"Generally, when it comes to grief, particularly with teens, the impulse for the support person is to try to make them feel better," said Jana DeCristofaro, community response program coordinator of the Dougy Center, a national center for grieving children and families.
Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 28503 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE has a unique perspective when it comes to grief: He's been there.
In this case it is the schoolmaster who comes to grief. He is seated at this desk busily engrossed in private business and letting his students run riot. One of the youngsters causes great merriment by tying an artificial spider to a ruler, and shaking it in front of the schoolmaster's face.
Rosalie comes to grief at the hands of one Wayne Page (Webb), the dissolute son of a rich family who is also a rival for the hand of Caroline, and John is required to use force to see that Wayne does the wronged young woman justice. John and Caroline then look forward to their own happiness.
By that time, however, translations of La Fontaine's Fables were offering an alternative moral. The French author's mouse is a naive creature who knows the world only from books and comes to grief not simply through greed but for lack of experience.VIII.9 In this lively poem, one of La Fontaine's images recalls Alciato's emblem. Arriving at the sea, where 'The tide had left the oysters bare/ He thought these shells the ships must be'.
Just then, a ship arrives, and with it, the melodramatic Captain Bang: "Oh, tremble! I'm a Pirate Chief; Who comes upon me comes to grief." Bang explains that he is bound by his duty under his pirate indentures to execute his four new acquaintances. He explains his history: :I was the only son of a kind indulgent father and a kind indulgent mother, whose only care was to gratify my smallest whim.
Chase never lived in the United States though he did make two brief visits, one to Miami and the other en route to Mexico. Chase was subject to several court cases during his career. In 1942, his novel Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941), a lurid account of the white slave trade, was banned by the British authorities after the author and publishers Jarrold were found guilty of causing the publication of an obscene book. Each was fined £100.
Now and then some > one comes to grief in the surging, moving throng; but is quickly on his or > her feet again, the ice and water shaken off, and the zigzag resumed. > Children skate; boys and girls; ladies and gentlemen, and even dignified > military officers. Some skate well, some medium, some shockingly ill; but > all skate, or essay to do so. It is the grand Montrealese pastime, and > though the ice is sloppy, and the air chill and heavy with moisture, > everybody has a good time.
Meanwhile, the car thief comes to grief while speeding round a corner on a clifftop road, the car plunges over the edge and explodes in flames. Sherwin regains consciousness, but is suffering from complete amnesia with no idea of his own identity or how he came to be found in such a remote location. The farm owner and his daughter agree to look after Sherwin while he recuperates. The police investigate missing persons reports but find no case to match Sherwin's age and physical description.
The New York Times; August 18, 1910; Aeroplane Crashes into an Automobile; Ralph Johnstone Comes to Grief in a Twenty-Mile Wind at Asbury Park. Aviation Field, Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 18, 1910. Wilbur Wright's school of fledgling filers came to grief again this afternoon when they drove another of their teacher's biplanes into the ground, nose on and reduced it to a hopeless mass of kindling wood and canvas. On October 27, 1910, the International Aviation Tournament was held at the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, New York.
Their search for intellectual stimulation leads them, over the course of years, to flounder through almost every branch of knowledge.With the notable exception of mathematics, as pointed out by Raymond Queneau Flaubert uses their quest to expose the hidden weaknesses of the sciences and arts, as nearly every project Bouvard and Pécuchet set their minds on comes to grief. Their endeavours are interleaved with the story of their deteriorating relations with the local villagers; and the Revolution of 1848 is the occasion for much despondent discussion. The manuscript breaks off near the end of the novel.
Walt and his friends attempt to halt a condominium development on the 7th line known as Persephone Glen Homes. Attempts include running for office and using the code of farming. Episode 6 Freddy and Maggie get spooked when Walt and Jimmy show up at the farm one winter night, escorted by the police, and Walt's hackles are raised when he discovers survey stakes for a condominium development in the field across the road. Episode 7 Walt gets snagged by the police while "practicing" fishing, nearly comes to grief while fixing the barn roof with Freddy and Jimmy, and takes on Township Council over a condominium development proposal.
Martin Edwards states that Lupin was heavily influenced by Raffles. According to Federico Pagello, the Raffles series was the most influential predecessor to the Lupin series, though both series were also influenced by the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The gentleman thief character Raffles (Lord Lister), introduced in a German magazine in 1908, was an imitation of Hornung's Raffles. The British press used Raffles as a synonym for a real-life thief in at least forty-seven newspaper articles in the period 1905–1939, in many cases in the headlines. Examples include the articles "'Raffles' in Real Life" (Daily Express, 1907) and "Exploit of a 'Raffles'" (Daily Herald, 1927). The same usage can be seen in press reports from the same period in other countries, such as "'Cat' Burglar: A Modern Raffles" (Brisbane Courier, 1927) and "Feminine Raffles Comes to Grief" (Los Angeles Times, 1927).
Following up on rumors of an "escape nook to Asia," the Chums travel ‘into the sands of the Inner Asian desert’ in search of Shambhala aboard the ‘subdesertine frigate Saksaul’, whose crew, ‘The Viscosity Gang’, is led by Captain Toadflax. Navigation is handled by Stilton Gaspereaux, ‘a civilian passenger… who prove[s] to be a scholarly adventurer in the Inner Asian tradition’. Chick and Randolph become aware of a broader ‘plot’ afoot in the region—that of oil prospecting. Chick finds it ‘distressing’ that ‘once again [they] are being used to further someone’s hidden plans'; Randolph becomes ‘obsessed, recklessly so’, by the Saksaul's logbooks’ other (monetary rather than sublime) plot potential. Having returned the Chums to the Inconvenience, ‘H. M. S. F. Saksaul [comes] to grief’, attacked by an unknown force, ‘the copy of the Sfinciuno Itinerary which the Chums in their innocence had brought aboard [having] led the Saksaul into ambush and disaster’.

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