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the ship, he finds himself in the middle -- and is forced to come to terms with who he is and what his values are.

Mr Doig is still trying to come to terms with the price put on his work. His accomplished Tate show ought to help him do so.

It HAS caused controversy in a country still trying to come to terms with the events of World War II.

She managed to come to terms with her pain and waited patiently for her doctor to come.

The influx of immigrants puts added pressure on an Italy struggling to come to terms with its place in a new world.

STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

When we played that scene [of him dying] it was very sad, but again, we had come to terms with it.

If you cannot come to terms with it, eventually you will breach the policies and be forced to leave the business in disgrace.

The company is closing down, for it has been unable to come to terms with the trade union.

Most readers think you need counselling to help you come to terms with what happened, but I'm not at all convinced.

With the war over and the nation trying to come to terms with its shattering effects, Ali's trajectory now seemed less radical.

Over the past three decades, the Dutch appeared to come to terms with their place in soccer's natural order.

I think it's going to take her a while to come to terms with the fact that she came so close but didn't get it.

In the matter of house-rent I have come to terms with him.

He's been here a year and hopefully he will have come to terms with the different style of football by the time the season starts.

It may change things for a few seconds but when you come to terms with reality you realize that this did not change anything.

There was no way she could come to terms with death, she lay night after night in a confused terror.

We're still trying to explain and come to terms with what is the evolutionary advantage of this.

But downplaying the situation won't help him come to terms with his own passing or make him feel comfortable sharing it with you.

Aides say he never did come to terms with the increased exposure of his new role.

Such memories never fade, but Hungary, unlike some of its neighbours, is making growing efforts to come to terms with its past.

Be open at all times, to give assistance, where necessary, to those who need help to come to terms with the truth.

He seems to have come to terms with losing his sight.

It is a country that has done more than almost any other to come to terms with its history.

He would, of course, climb out of it. He would come to terms with his weaknesses, control his passionsandachieve what we now call maturity.

Lara must either come to terms with her weight gain and accept herself for who she truly is, or wallow in her own self pity.

She has helped thousands of men and women come to terms with things that bother and that they could not talk about with others .

When I broke my foot at Spurs, I was sitting on the treatment table half an hour or so later and I had already come to terms with it.

Western governments are also only beginning to come to terms with what may soon be required in Libya.

All that I can do is to come to terms with my fate.

Today Winter recalls how hard it was for his father to come to terms with the events which occurred in his homeland after he left.

He was the only person I knew who had come to terms with himself and the world around him.

She also is receiving psychiatric counseling "to come to terms with what happened. She's struggling to understand"

Besides helping your loved one come to terms with his death, you may need to discuss practical matters with him.

Unlike other rich economies wrestling with deflationary forces and minimal growth, though, Japan has largely come to terms with its decline.

More than anything, living in China seems to have helped him come to terms with his traumatic childhood.

If it can come to terms with its past, Spain will surely be better able to face its future.

But for all this, he must still face his greatest secret and come to terms with who he really is.

Renho's ascent to power comes as Japan struggles to come to terms with its near-absence of female executives and politicians.

In the last month or so he's come to terms with what English football is, compared to what is a different style of football in Portugal.

The fish couldn't come to terms with his transformation and decided to chase down the wicked witch and make her turn him back into a fish.

Vigils and church services were held across Norway on Sunday as the shocked country tried to come to terms with the tragedy.

Now, 20 years later, Isabelle must come to terms with the memories and unlock the power of her brush.

Laura has come to terms with the fact that she will never study in that famous school.

The West, after some grumbling, would have come to terms with it.

It has taken him a long time to come to terms with the fact that he won't be able to go to college.

He learned from the story that the best way to overcome difficulties was to come to terms with the reality and face the challenge bravely.

But failure to come to terms with them will drive a wedge between all of us and a prosperous, healthy future for this country.

All of Obama Sr. 's children, Jacobs says, have had to come to terms with their complicated relationships with their father.

They tried to come to terms with him.

A perfect poem, and one of Dickinson's most compressed and chilling attempts to come to terms with mortality.

George and Elizabeth have come to terms with the fact that they will never have children.

at other times children have taken years to reconcile with the transitioned parent, if they ever come to terms with the issue at all.

What they have apparently failed to do is to persuade Germans to come to terms with the changes they are witnessing.

And yet, we are also separate individuals. We must come to terms with pur struggles alone.

To come to terms with our multifaceted human dilemma is to come to terms with the mentality of oppression that our meals demand.

It is ultimately an attempt to come to terms with his Southern heritage.

He called it nonsense that the two corporations might come to terms with the DRC without any action under such circumstances.

e. g. we are glad to come to terms with you at last.

It is important that you come to terms with your present situation and not evade issues by ignoring them.

They are adopted by a grieving mother to help come to terms with the loss of a child.

For some people, to have their cherished beliefs severely questioned is difficult to handle, and it takes time to come to terms with it.

The protagonist loses everything in his struggle to come to terms with unforeseen events.

Few things help immigrants come to terms with their new country more than becoming part of a local family.

But ultimately he will have to come to terms with his own success.

Meanwhile Sandra and many others are struggling to come to terms with the mistake they feel has already been made.

She could come to terms with her handicap.

Life has its ups and downs and each person has to come to terms with his own share of misery.

It's four weeks since my son Stephen died, and I am struggling to come to terms with his death and the circumstances.

That's when the military and the state-run media will both have to come to terms with events in their country.

The managers spared every effort to come to terms with the workers about an agreement on overtime salary.

Operations where dust accumulates or is processed must therefore come to terms with the new directives.

I don't quite know why I haven't come to terms with his death after such a long time.

Many of Jaffna's old residents feel that the northern heartland is struggling to come to terms with the influx of southerners.

They are unlikely to come to terms with Mr Karzai even if he offers to negotiate.

He would come to terms with his weaknesses, control his passions and achieve what we now call maturity.

He says India's nimble private sector often finds it difficult to come to terms with China's more state-driven enterprises.

As a nation, we have yet to come to terms with our multicultural society.

However, she admitted, "I have long ago come to terms with the fact that it is not my forte. "

Even if I lose this time, I'll come to terms with it because I still have you, my fellow countrymen.

I have come to terms with him.

It has also thwarted our capacity to come to terms with the complex legal-political institution that is modern judicial review.

He, too, is unable to come to terms with the sequence of events that tore his family apart this year.

"We are all affected by Hitler, so it speaks to all of us and helps Germans and foreigners to come to terms with the past. "

I find it impossible to come to terms with her.

America has clearly not yet come to terms with the fact that a healthy long-term future depends on suffering short-term pain.

An Irish peasant would have long since come to terms with the creature.

While the rest of the world struggles to come to terms with the "man bag" , the male fashion pack has moved on.

In the story, Blessed Alwyn tries to come to terms with how a black man can integrate into society.

It took me a long time to come to terms with bad copy on a client's site.

We've also had to come to terms with losing the world's best goalkeeper to injury .

The US must come to terms with its limited ability to muscle China into doing what it wants.

Buyers couldn't come to terms with the car's styling, and its high price proved a bitter pill.

If you've been under stress and worrying about older members of the family, it's time to come to terms with the situation.

We have come to terms with them that a mass meeting shall be held next Monday.

It could obscure man's awareness of the need to come to terms with himself.

I have come to terms with him and we will work together.

At age 44, and after 14 years in finance, Mr. Schor sometimes struggles to come to terms with his new identity.

It's something which I think affected me for a long time, and it's something that I've just recently come to terms with.

A group of old schoolfriends get together to try and come to terms with having been taught by a priest who is now exposed as a paedophile.

She has come to terms with her fate.

Come to terms with it and then start planning your next move.

I've come to terms with it, you have to, too.

Mathematics is a dynamically defined discipline used by Man to study and come to terms with the world about him.

Nor have many of them yet come to terms with Mr Toyoda's urgency and appalling frankness.

The two fighting nations must come to terms with each other.

But in the end, he wonders if people will ever come to terms with this.

We have come to terms with them.

This is something we also have to come to terms with in the coming weeks.

Do you come to terms with him?

I looked to the past to come to terms with those impulses.

Beijing will have to come to terms with more meetings such as this week's.

Are you able to come to terms with the idea of "sustainable lifestyle" ?

A: Are you able to come to terms with the idea of "sustainable lifestyle" ?

It's time to come to terms with globalization.

I have come to terms with my fate.

Come to terms with truly how we feel.

You have to come to terms with the loss on your own time, and in your own manner.

He couldn't come to terms with his sexuality.

We need to come to terms with reality.

It will be hard to come to terms with them.

We must come to terms with our struggles alone.

I was so nervous before my initial consult, I should have visited a therapist in order to come to terms with my fears.

Mr. Jones was once a millionaire and he can't come to terms with being poor.

He has come to terms with death.

Katie is certain she has come to terms with the past.

At the end of the day, we must come to terms with changing what we can and accepting what we cannot change.

We must all come to terms with the past and let it go.

Having been the chairman in that committee for 20 years, he can't come to terms with the retirement.

Come to terms with us and we will be your subjects.

It is not just the Maoists who have a problem with democracy. The other parties find it hard to come to terms with last year's election.

If you want to play with them, you have to come to terms with the government factor, because it isn't going away.

It is time for the White House to come to terms with two central realities: the war in Iraq is a historic, strategic and moral calamity;

Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality

come to terms (with somebody)

I haven't come to terms With how we said goodbye

Even so, you have to come to terms with limitations;

Will you come to terms with me this night

come to terms with someone

When I come to terms with this whip lash

Come to terms with accept (sth. One doesn't want to accept); reach an agreement