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Funeral was wracked with agony and grief, but what made it one of the transcendent records of the 2000s was that it avoided easy answers.

Indeed, Kim Jong-il appeared to have ruled over a country wracked by poverty and starvation.

If any of these illnesses wracked Lincoln's body during his presidency, how do we explain his inexhaustible physical constitution?

A child with appendicitis died, and the anxious parents were in fact relieved when pain no longer wracked the child.

The east-African country has been wracked by warfare and has no functioning government - much less a navy to patrol its shores.

Recent reports have painted a picture of a Clinton campaign wracked with strife and internal discord, suggesting a dysfunctional operation.

Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today.

Mantis came form South America, she was born and rised in a country wracked by never-ending civil wars.

The United States is wracked neither by food riots nor a great epidemic of pesticide-induced cancers.

Moreover, it could be a way to diversify your portfolio away from financial markets wracked by global debt fears.

She is wracked with guilt for her two other children, worried that she does not pay enough attention to them.

Nowadays, however, the country is so wracked by corruption that rather than receiving wages, many police actually pay to have the job.

People can become paralysed by too much variety and wracked with uncertainty and regret about whether they have made the right decision.

African nations face a choice, regardless of how indebted, poorly governed, or wracked by conflict they may be.

The eastern state of Orissa has been wracked with clashes between Hindus and Christians since August.

Thirty years later, it was still a poor country, wracked by continual political turmoil.

China is wracked by social inequality, environmental damage and government corruption.

Most guys would rather suffer at home, wracked by fever, barfing their brains out, than consult a physician.

RESIDENTS of Caracas, Venezuela's crime-wracked capital, have become grimly accustomed to shootings.

In the last two years, he got seven cards from seven banks and wracked up $29, 000 in debts.

The soldiers reported they saw more than 70 percent of the roads in the town were wracked, and nearly all bridges collapsed.

Child of catastrophe, a Bengali girl waits for relief food during a famine that wracked Bangladesh last autumn.

You are wracked with guilt because you survived, and you dread the prospect of a life alone.

In the first quarter of 2009, China was the world's largest car market, overtaking the recession-wracked U. S. for the first time ever.

The whole of drought-and conflict-wracked southern Somaliaremains in a serious food crisis.

Behind these freshly painted walls you will find. Parents wracked with guilt. Wives tired of srtuggling. Lovers who have been lied to.

After a full day of hiking, Sims and Tedesco reached the barren, wind-wracked summit rim.

Somehow, however, it also took half an hour, by which time the meter had wracked up 40 lira.

He has been visiting recession-wracked towns, wooing carefully-chosen journalists and drumming up support on the internet.

Wracked with shame and overcome by grief at what he has become, he breaks his parole and wipes the slate clean.

Why then is the recession -wracked U. S. minting more millionaires than the Mighty Dragon ?

The greensward all wracked is, bents dried up and dead.

Kandahar province has been wracked by increasing violence.

Such people are wracked with self-doubts and tend to burn themselves out.

The government is worried over the situation in Indian Kashmir, which has been wracked by massive protests in recent days.

Despite its rich history and its oil reserves, it is a ruined nation that is wracked with violence, despair and confusion.

Just 16 years ago the ANC inherited a country that was virtually bankrupt, riven with racial hostility and wracked by poverty.

Tweener, wracked with self-hatred and fear, finally confesses, "In the yard today, I did hear Scofield says somethin'. "

In their waking hours, and in bed at night, they are wracked by anxiety.

Mexico is wracked by a drug war.

Civilwars wracked the country from 1916 onwards.

I have wracked my shabby brain and can find no answer.

For in worlds wracked by war, forests are leveled for the building of ships and siege engines;

And wracked with fires with longing

i don ' t want a wracked toy