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Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught.

Then there's the fraught issue of whether each party is allowed to see other people during the separation.

Yet the lists are also fraught with credibility risks, since estimating people's wealth is often a guessing game.

The bad news was that this supply route is also fraught with pitfalls, from arduous delays to bribes and extortion.

Seizure is fraught with headaches, but at least there would be a well-prepped body of private-sector bidders for the banks' assets.

Of course, the alternative, forcing Qaddafi out of power, is fraught with its own problems and complications.

Indeed, the question of whether such insertions should be allowed at all is fraught.

The first days were fraught. He kept his head down, doggedly writing jagged notes with his stiffened fingers. He felt out of place.

Similarly, the disasters have led to a rapprochement with Russia, with which relations have also been fraught over a territorial dispute.

As a result of a downsizing initiative and a major bank merger, his usually well-ordered life became fraught with changes.

You're looking very fraught, Mildred! Is there anything the matter?

Yet the road to the commercialization of this technology is fraught with challenges. One of the biggest is consumer acceptance .

Their needs are often far more unpredictable than, but just as emotionally fraught as, the first experience of parenthood.

"The next 20 years of transition to a new system are fraught with risks, " the document declared.

The commission found that measuring sustainability was more fraught with technical difficulties.

The Taliban are not the only enemy along the fraught borderlands of the Afghan war.

That said, the process is fraught with some risks. First of all, the stagnant wage growth was not limited to Foxconn and Honda.

Travel will be possible, but there will be three days when any sort of travel will be fraught with difficulties.

However, due to legislative, theoretical and systemic flaws, BOT applied in public utilities has been fraught with quite a few problems.

This murmur arose from all the land , fraught with the job of living , It came from the things that lived during the long months of frost .

Almost every asset class seems to be fraught with danger.

So far, there's no answer. And ever finding one would be fraught with difficulties, as Davies himself acknowledged.

Translating corporate philosophies into the right mix of color, style, degree of branding and uniformity can be a fraught process.

A: Since the stock market is fraught with problems, I've decided to sell all my shares?

But Almunia said the outlook was fraught with uncertainty and gloomy indicators.

The trip is fraught with many technical challenges , many of which are outranked by the question of keeping the crew healthy and sane .

Fraught with emotional turmoil and shattering hallucinations, they're unable to differentiate their interior trauma from the exterior world.

And Europe's relationship with China is not fraught with the same geopolitical rivalry as that of the US and China.

The volatility also has made what would appear to be a straightforward bet against the dollar fraught with risk .

Second, Japan had already nationalized two long-term credit banks, and the experience had been fraught with controversy.

The word "empowerment" is so fraught as to be nearly useless.

And strengthening the public finances to deal with an ageing population remains politically fraught.

That's simplifying a bit, because international comparisons of purchasing power are fraught with difficulties.

Sometimes, though, a present job is so fraught with problems that it would be torture to stay one more minute at that desk.

Obama, however, decided to elevate another complicated, politically fraught issue first.

The response shows just how fraught the coming period of reconciling forced austerity with equity is going to be.

Future negotiations will also be fraught with thousands of new facts on the ground.

The world economy is now slowly recovering, but the situation is still complicated and fraught with uncertainties.

Evidently the partition of supplies would require profound attention and would be fraught with many difficulties and delicate aspects.

China has long had a fraught relationship with its fraternal neighbour.

But measuring the age of lunar plagioclase, samples of which were collected by Apollo astronauts, is fraught with uncertainty.

"But this is a very vague and confusing area, as Chinas privatisation has been fraught with irregularities, " he said.

But even with such a past, this year has been particularly fraught for America's second-biggest police force.

Since the largest dinosaurs have skeletons a lot larger than any living terrestrial species, such extrapolation is fraught with difficulty.

During a period fraught with difficulties and marked by very extraordinary events the United States have flourished beyond example.

Even when organizations design shorter surveys, the questions are often confusing and fraught with interpretation problems.

Many countries also are fraught with political and currency risks, as well as a lack of regulatory and legal oversight.

Shows that depend on loans from abroad are often fraught with difficulties, with museum directors jealously guarding national treasures.

The program starts with an hour-long series of questionnaires that rate satisfaction levels on fraught topics like sex and parenting.

But far from being a smooth passage, it is a relationship that will be fraught with challenges and misunderstandings along the way.

The growth of any new-born thing is fraught with contradictions and struggle.

Even simple tasks used to be fraught with difficulty for Fraser Booth.

Tajikistan has also for years had fraught relations with its larger neighbour, Uzbekistan.

Soros, who earned $1 billion in 1992 by betting against the British pound, said current currency arrangements are "fraught with danger. "

Rio and Chinese authorities have been engaged in fraught negotiations for the past nine months over the price of iron ore.

She pledged to work closely with whatever government emerged at the end of Mr Netanyahu's still fraught coalition-building.

Placing too much value on material advantage while ignoring what he called the "spiritual lag" was a path fraught with peril, King said.

In Atlanta, the search for answers begins at ground zero, the scene of the Olympic bombing, where every step is fraught with danger.

With analysis of its cultural identity, it was fraught compelled and ingratiated.

The article is fraught with incredibly sexist and false assumptions about human sexuality. I'll just start at the top and work my way down.

It is a path fraught with risk. This, rather than his country's nuclear ambitions, might yet prove to be Mr Ahmadinejad's undoing.

But compulsory licensing is a difficult path, fraught with complications including legal actions from pharmaceutical companies.

But digital audio-visual industry in China's development to date has failed to meet international standards, also be fraught with problems.

The deal was discussed at a fraught board meeting on February 3, at which Mr Leng made his objections clear and argued for a rights issue.

Although his peace policy received broad support, the cause for peace was still fraught with difficulties and pain.

FEW scientific fields are as fraught with risk as that of research into human intelligence.

Attempts to measure happiness are fraught with problems of subjectivity: different people derive happiness from different activities.

Finding compromises on such fraught social issues is key to the rebuilding, which suggests that it will remain painstakingly slow.

Making the ceasefire stick is likely to be fraught with difficulties.

For Liu, every brushstroke relates to an ephemeral spiritual and material reality, fraught with impulses and experiences both high and low.

The evolving explanation whipsawed Google watchers and showed how fraught with confusion the relationship between China and Google remains.

As observations in the past do not necessarily hold into the future, predicting future cancer occurrence is fraught with uncertainty.

it was also prone to fraud and fraught with moral hazard, since sloppy lending went unpunished.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. --William Shakespeare.

The food safety issue is further exacerbating the already fraught trade relationship between the US and China.

My design, as it takes you down the rabbit hole, is fraught with many challenges and difficulties in the real world.

In the rarefied air of structured finance, coming up with a rating is fraught with challenges.

The threat of yet another constitutional crisis comes at a fraught time. Old dividing lines from the civil-war era are starting to reopen.

In short, almost any big institutional change is now fraught with difficulty.

Without the benefit of hindsight as in the bond example, I feel this course of action is fraught with danger.

Structuring the right deal with sons or daughters ( or in situ management ) is fraught with complications .

The great times produces great practice, great practice is fraught with the Great Spirit.

The procedure was fraught with danger, particularly so in the heat of battle.

Efforts to revive the cooling system for the complex's six reactors have been fraught with setbacks.

But the relationship soon fell apart and a fraught custody battle followed.

The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize.

Lord Howe, Britain's foreign secretary during fraught negotiations with China in the 1980s, used the analogy of a Ming vase.

Dressing for the school run is, I have discovered, more fraught than I ever would have imagined.

Even the apparently sensible precaution of printing warnings on food labels is fraught with complications.

Multi-party systems, however fraught, are more usual; the notion of political accountability and choice is more widely accepted.

Yet, the implementation of Daylight Saving Time has been fraught with controversy since Benjamin Franklin first conceived of the idea.

Some people have discussed using actual monetary cost for this purpose, but that's an approach fraught with problems.

This remains a fraught subject in Mississippi; to the extent Mr DuPree chose to address it, he did so with humour.

Building causal models for the number of weeks in jail or prison was fraught with problems.

International trade relations were increasingly fraught.

Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley have long appeared the irreconcilable hard men of the province's fraught politics.

Precision measurements of this sort are fraught with difficulty and other sources of error may have crept in.

A graceful exit is never easy in a business as fraught with ego and ambition as presidential politics.

I suspect that the cases in which the parents and teachers disagree are those most fraught with problems.

But this in turn only complicates the already fraught politics of the regime's leadership succession.

Human life can appear to be fraught with pain and anguish but in TRUTH this is but a smokescreen.

The chief executive of Eni, the Italian oil company, begins to summarise a century of Italy's often fraught relationship with Libya.

Determining Europe's best economic interest is already a fraught business in a union of 25 members (soon to be 27).

It has endured some initial glitches in 1901, a fraught week in 1937 and some random power outages all the way up to 1970s.

For the Indian surrogates themselves, it's an experience often fraught with emotional conflict.

His work was fraught with problems and he had to make frequent trips to the hardware store.

The smell of the kennel was rank, the atmosphere fraught with desperation.

Want to find a person to accompany me ah. . . But I can't do that. Since no decided to pay. Don't give people hope. . . Fraught!

The divorce showed how choosing the right wedding gifts for the new in-laws is fraught with pitfalls in South Korea.

But predicting the outlook for growth in any country is fraught with difficulty. When it comes to China, the problems are compounded.

Prices aboard the item tender attempt sheet shall be fraught discover in the emulating manner.

Pinning these sectoral difficulties exclusively on the US is, however, fraught with difficulty.

This year's anniversary is fraught, overshadowed by Pastor Terry Jones's threat to burn copies of the Koran.

But Bosnia remains ethnically divided and relations between Sarajevo and Belgrade are still fraught.

But Essig's call for "culinary mindfulness" is one possible guiding tonic to Americans' fraught relationship with food these days.

One thing is nearly certain: a tense regime and fraught relations with the outside world are not good for hungry bellies.

The investment was fraught with risk, given that nobody could ascertain whether Mr Huang was happy with Bain's involvement.

Such new technologies are fraught with possible setbacks, however, on the path from laboratory bench to bedside.

Yesterday's developments followed a fraught three days during which the consortium made several attempts to keep its unpopular bid alive.

His poems are fraught with glimpsed presences; ghosts, angels, ancestors, our own unlived lives.

Selling the policies is fraught with risks relating to transparency, tax treatment and insurance fraud.

Asking for feedback when you're the boss is a fraught enterprise, but it's an essential one in today's business world.

But it was also fraught with difficulties.

Fragmented accounts painted a picture of final hours fraught with confusion and bloodletting.

Yet, if talking about Korea is awkward now, it will be even more fraught in the teeth of a crisis.

Golf is a game fraught with peril. The torque generated when swinging a golf club can torture the lower back.

Subsidies to domestic producers are another increasingly fraught issue.

The expedition through the jungle was fraught with difficulties and danger.

Their journeys by wagon train are fraught with danger, across distances never imagined possible.

An afternoon setting is much more casual, and less fraught with expectations. Not that I'm saying you should stay in at night!

Despite its low-tech appearance, the strategy Okumu is testing is far more complicated, and potentially fraught with hazard, than it seems.

The increase in prices added a fresh complication to the fraught negotiations.

It looks neat in the briefing rooms but in practice is a messy, ambiguous business fraught with moral dilemmas.

words fraught with meaning; an incident fraught with danger; a silence pregnant with suspense.

The four Rio employees were arrested at the height of fraught negotiations over iron ore prices.

Yet although this strategy would be much cheaper than a takeover, it is also fraught with difficulties, according to bankers and lawyers.

The urban landscape of the West of China, to China's urban living environment fraught with problems.

Unfortunately, this method is not only quite verbose, but it's also fraught with fragility and the potential for bugs.

to make experiments where experiments are fraught with such fearful hazard.

But critics have a point that genetic police work, like the sampling of arrestees, is fraught with bias.

The match between Russia's vast hydrocarbon reserves and soaring Chinese energy needs is fraught too.

But dishing out equity to reward staff who undertake corporate ventures is fraught with pitfalls.

Progress across open ground is slow and fraught with danger as predators are on the lookout for easy pickings.

As a lesbian, meeting a partner can be fraught.

But these odd-couple relationships can be fraught with peril.

The great American slowdown may be less calamitous than many people fear; but it is fraught with dangers.

Holding a convention amid a fierce storm is fraught with obvious peril for the GOP, however.

The Twilight Highlands are as rich with history as they are fraught with disaster and tragedy.

a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables.

Mr. Klenow points out that the calculation is fraught with difficulties.

Chancellery is fraught, to fraud of kingly painful Chen Li, say to handle bad meeting a conquered nation.

Even when free of political meddling, central banking is fraught with uncertainty.

Disputes are frequent, and becoming more fraught as Beijing's assertiveness grows.

Estimation of right atrial size on plain radiography is fraught with difficulties.

It is, in reality, fraught with in securities and disappointments.

But that decision would be fraught in all manner of other ways.

But it deferred the politically fraught decision on the F-16's, as had the Bush administration.

Restructuring could also prove bureaucratically fraught.

Making the right choice of course and college in any foreign country is fraught with difficulties.

Spring is a dangerous time for the family of Scorpios, very fraught with break ups, or at worst - temporary cooling.

They were dangerous days, fraught with taboos and the specter of bad weather.

Leon Panetta, the CIA head, calls the fraught ties with Pakistan "very complicated" .

Changing the wage structure is fraught with political and economic problems.

When there exist so many divisions within Europe and the decisions ahead are so complex and fraught, his absence will be keenly felt.

Because you run the tests so infrequently, they are often fraught with errors.

Even waving good-by to a daring traveler is fraught with perils.

And as GM integrates its global operations, product development for individual markets will become more fraught.

Dubious: Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; undecided.

The couple met through internet dating and the first stage of their relationship was fiery and fraught.

But like bow ties and white loafers, facial hair is fraught with negative connotations.

Using floating point and decimal numbers in Java programs is fraught with pitfalls.

Even defining what constitutes a religion is fraught with difficulty.

Giving the imprimatur of the state to global companies is also fraught with risks.

The land where we travel is fraught with dangers.

Reducing incoming sunlight, by contrast, is fraught with danger.

The tobacco looked healthy and green and fraught for Mary--with promise of future plenty.

Thus the city and its signifiers are fraught with multiple meanings.

Dinner. The end of the day is fraught with temptation.

Diaries and letters from the period reveal a populace fraught with insecurity.

This is a very dangerous period, explosive and fraught with depression and violent ruptures in long relationships.

Second, the transition to full integration will be not just lengthy, but complex and fraught.

But the new law comes at a particularly fraught time for France's Muslim community.

It's also the one most fraught with mistakes, ranging from picking at the wrong time to picking for the wrong reasons.

Peace-making is still fraught.

the fraught loading at Poland port have been delivery.

But its release over the weekend was fraught with drama.

Yet, if talking about Koreais awkward now, it will be even more fraught in the teeth of a crisis.

BASING troops and equipment on foreign soil is fraught with difficulty.

Better policies are especially needed because the international environment is fraught with uncertainty .

However, as the main sector of urban infrastructure facilities, the development of urban public utilities has been fraught with problems.

Operating in exile from Damascus, he has played a critical role in fraught relations with Israel and Fatah.

Looking to China for economic lessons is a fraught proposition.

Other options are also fraught with difficulties.

The authorship question is fraught because the mechanism was developed independently by three groups within a matter of weeks in 1964.

The road of love is never smooth and always fraught with dangers .

"The situation remains fraught with serious threats to peace, " Lyman said.

The expedition into the jungle was fraught with danger.

A fluid situation fraught with uncertainty .

Such studies, however, are fraught with statistical and other problems.

The issue is especially fraught in states with many rural schools.

Crossing that perilous passage to a mainstream OS is a risky proposition that is fraught with pitfalls.

Is the government capable of acting in a way that is not fraught with corruption?

Still, a recovery strategy dependent on reinflating an asset bubble is fraught with risks.

But for people with anorexia, meals are fraught with anxiety.

This is a path fraught with risks for all involved: for the US, for China and for the whole of Asia.

The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet it is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed.

Even if the initiative goes nowhere, it is fraught with political peril.

This time round, with luck, elections will be much less fraught.

A near-space rivalry is fraught with potential dangers.

To some investors, the broad range of indicators suggest the global economy has entered a new period, one fraught with danger.

It could be the most fraught single issue to face the coalition in 2011, and perhaps in the whole five-year parliament.

The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions.

The rise of state capitalism is fraught with problems.

In this highly modernized city, the most fashionable enjoyment is popular, and it is fraught with material culture.

Mr Kudrin and Mr Medvedev, both economic and political liberals, have a fraught relationship.

Fraught with Favor, Basking in Kindness.

Export promotion is fraught with danger.

marketing any new product is fraught with danger.

Financial expert Jon Henes tells VOA even the remedy is fraught with peril.

The risks are that the transfer of power will be fraught.

Clearly this episode will be fraught with emotion.

eg: The crowd was fraught with fear when the gunman appeared.

The crowd was fraught with fear when the gunman appeared.

Meanwhile, the world of politics will be as fraught with risk, and as determined by chance, as the roulette wheel.

In the real world is fraught with endless complications and pitfalls.

From the start, inevitably perhaps in a noisy democracy such as India's, the SEZ scheme has been fraught with controversy.

I have the capability lines, it is your capital, but please do not be a teacher - fraught.

But any such investment is fraught with risks.

In the absence of spirit's influence he fails to find his true self in the miasma that is fraught in his unintelligible world.

These talks will be fraught with difficulty.

In China, the simple act of printing a picture of the country can be fraught with danger.

Both sets of elections will be fraught with danger.

Undoubtedly, the crisscross streets here are fraught with clamor and impetuosity, which I am the most reluctant to contact.

According to Kiyosaki (1993), the current education system is fraught with many problems.

It's artificial and it's complicated and it's fraught with layer upon layer of guilt.

But for those who are concerned about green, life is fraught.

The gateway to boarding school admission is more fraught with connections and backdoor dealing than is that for universities.

A silence fraught with meaning.

A final thought: ending civil wars is a process that is fraught with dangers, frustrations and setbacks.

As appealing and potent as that strategy is, tapping into the opiate system is also fraught with danger.

How do you maintain momentum developing products that are years in the making and fraught with setbacks?

And, given the history of security contractors in Iraq, that can be fraught with all kinds of problems.

But something seemingly as simple as this is fraught with complication.

In fact, this situation is even more fraught than it was in 2000 because of the recession.

Lu Zaiyuan, then fraught with difficulties, as long as go, brave exploits, will go to the destination.

But as we've all learned from the time travel classics, this is a path fraught with peril, isn't it?

So fraught was the process that one neighbour had a finger bitten off.

This is obviously a matter fraught with danger, and it needs the most careful timing.

There's no need to look so fraught!

These are slow, nit-picky debates, fraught with acrimony and issues of nationalism.