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• n  patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
• s  patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
  a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife

• In that play, the long-suffering title character winds up shooting himself in the head.
• JP and his long-suffering wife watch from the jungle as a small boat approaches shore bearing a long-bearded, shiny-helmeted explorer and a kneeling priest holding high a .
• India's long-suffering eunuchs have, however, made an impressive start on their own.

• long-sufferance
• enduring

News & Articles

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• Gap, Up 32% YTD, Still Cheap vs. Competition
  The financial charts on Gap (GPS) show a company executing one of the more beautiful turnarounds in fashion retailing; one that despite odds brought back customers and rebuilt profit margins. Gap?s long-suffering shareholders are now up some 58% in the past year alone, as seen in a stock chart, and the share price hovers in 13-year high territory. Long-term investors might want to take a look at ...
  June 13, 2013 - Forbes
• New-Issue Leveraged Loan Yields Rise Amid High Yield Tremors
  The leveraged loan market's recent cooling has given some relief to long-suffering institutional investors, who have seen yields on new-issue loans slide noticeably over the past year.
  June 12, 2013 - Forbes
• Ahead of Major International Gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 22, 'Onward to Freedom', British Lawmakers Back ...
  LONDON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Majority members of both Houses of the British Parliament have given their support to the Iranian Resistance and the long-suffering residents of Camps Liberty and ...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Earthtimes (press release)
  I wish the best to the Cardinals. They have been long-suffering. It's a great Cinderella story,Obama said. "But other than the Bears, the Steelers are probably the team that's closest to my heart."
• John Nettles in The Guardian
  Unless a political settlement is reached through negotiations, Somalia :will face a period of deepening conflict and heightened instability, which would be disastrous for the long-suffering people of Somalia, and could also have serious... François Lonseny Fall http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Lonseny_Fall&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEgdgS8Qy9VV2g_T-bfdOAnIbjH7A UN News Centre http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp%3FNewsID%3D21112%26Cr%3Dsomalia%26Cr1%3D&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG3ExqbOf3AwvcsrrLFVcTGUBgT4A Dec 26, 2006 59209 78965 long-suffering Nettles said: I wanted to die in noble fashion in the service of my country and then be buried with full military honours in Westminster Abbey. In the event, Tom and his long-suffering wife Joyce will simply retire. It's always better to leave when...