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punishingly

puh ni shing lee

  • r  in a punishing manner

  • But if there is one person whose actions right now will determine whether the combination of crashing house prices, struggling lenders and punishingly high energy prices proves .
  • A punishingly, viscerally funny attack on hypocrisy and self-importance in all their many and varied forms, Lucky Jim gave rise to much of the angry-young-man fiction that followed .
  • Some vignettes from my memories: It's a punishingly hot day in 1992, a few weeks after my arrival in Hong Kong.
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  • Loren Roberts in USA Today
    There's no reason in this economy that anyone should see a tax increase. And El Tinklenberg and the Democrats that are now in control of Congress, and if Barack Obama would win the presidency, we will see punishingly high increases in taxes and... Michele Bachmann http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGZcdJKpAMr6pOxx-eQggH-Kl_bnA Minnesota Public Radio http://www.google.com/url?q=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/10/30/bachmann_tinklenberg_spar_in_final_debate/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGS8Ki07UK4mBn4zqamPRIxoW62mw Oct 30, 2008 79003 106387 punishingly It was punishingly slow," Roberts said. "I don't know what happened, but from the fifth hole up until the ninth hole there were three groups on every hole."

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