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That really throws a monkey wrench into the whole works.

Dave Gilmour

It's gut-wrenching for them, not making the final then to get themselves up to play in a positive way today is very tough. It's a horrible way to lose.

Ian Rutledge

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

Herb Asher

A white car came screaming out of nowhere and attempted to run us down. One came towards me with a tire wrench. I thought, 'What the hell?' and then I got whacked on the head. The next thing I know, I'm waiting for the ambulance.

Dick Jefferson

By the time we got there, they had to wrench the dog from him. They had a few others [dogs] as well. They tied up three of them and took off. We had the description and managed to get hold of all three.

Michael Mountain

To get a game snatched like that is gut-wrenching, really.

Mike Piazza

From the air – as a cottage owner – it's heart-wrenching.

Guy Boutilier

[Mr. Foley called the ensuing evening a,] difficult, gut-wrenching night. If the administration thinks that the sugar industry brought about the demise of this, there would have been hell to pay in the farm bill, ... This was somewhat of a survival of my constituents.

Mark Foley

It was a sad day because for the first time in his life Tom parted with his child. It was heart-wrenching for everyone.

Jerry Howarth

It was gut-wrenching to sit there and tell this lie, ... She has been living all these years thinking she had been saving them from a bad situation.

Dolores Johnson

He's amazing, and his family background is amazing. What he has overcome already in life is really heart-wrenching. I know this: This team loves him. He's the type of guy who really adds to the chemistry of a football team. People can't get enough of him and what he can do with his magic.

Gregg Williams

I just don't know what it's going to take to get people to slow down. It's gut-wrenching to come out to these things.

Kevin Honea

This is heart-wrenching is what it is; to actually see it for yourself in three dimensions.

Chris Price

The damage and destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is heart-wrenching, ... We have responded with a contribution to show our support, care and concern for the people and the communities in those areas. At the same time, our catastrophe claim responders are seeking out and responding to our personal and commercial policyholders.

Jay Fishman

The (Miami) relatives say it would be wrenching to him to take him from the home, but four months is no substitute for six years for a father who had such an important role in raising such a wonderful little boy.

Janet Reno

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.

Lynn Caine

Devastation is vast and unimaginable; the positive, 'can-do' spirit among the people was absolutely remarkable. The vision to overcome a heart-wrenching experience is alive and well with the wonderful people of South Mississippi.

Joann Johnson

It feels good to be going this year because I didn't want to feel like I let anyone down. It was gut-wrenching last year to not be going and to see my teammates compete. Winning was great, but it hurt not to contribute.

Josh Teeples

People have very good intentions. But this will be going on for months. It is very heart-wrenching and these people will be needing help for a long time.

Jane Larson

I think a small part of him doesn't want to hurt anybody. But when he gets some guy wrenching on his neck, you can see something snap in him.

Reggie Roberts

The decision to reduce our city staff was wrenching. But the cold, hard truth is that we can no longer support the investment necessary to cover the city as ambitiously as we do today.

John Mancini

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Robert Hughes

It has brought a blast of fresh air to business-as-usual boardrooms and to once-dispirited investors — no small achievement following a wrenching period of corporate excess.

Robert Steel

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

Sean Moran

If the point was to be gut-wrenching and emotional, they achieved that.

Laura Nelson

It would be real simple to say only look at Caroline Brevard. These are very heart-wrenching, difficult decisions.

Dee Crumpler

I'm psyched to see him finish on a high note. But I really would have liked to have thrown a wrench in his plans.

Bill Demong

I went right into (the neck wrench) and knew what I wanted to do and felt comfortable with it all the way.

Jacob Hall

My husband and I have made this very difficult, heart-wrenching personal choice to move back to the West Coast. Fort Wayne is so a part of my heart. The decision was incredibly hard to make.

Stephanie Mccormick

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

When he called me, my stomach went wrench! ... [I thought], Maybe Dave and I can buddy up and all of a sudden I'll just get in a car at the end of the tour and drive down and see Eddie and Alex [Van Halen] and say, 'OK, guys, off your asses, let's go! We're going out and doing this.' .

Sammy Hagar

Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and obviously not having him on the floor threw a monkey wrench into that. We didn't get the job done on defense tonight.

Jon Carroll

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Doug Freeman

Right now, I think Hilton has clearly put a wrench in the process by offering $70 per share.

Jason Ader

We've got scenarios in which parents were making actual gut-wrenching decisions to hand their child up to the front of a line of transport to get them safe. Parents performed heroic acts to try and keep their children safe, sometimes to the detriment of their own safety.

Nancy Mcbride

It's absolutely heart-wrenching to me to hear these stories and have people die of something so preventable. It's as if each person, each generation, each community has to learn the hard way.

Gregory Poland

It was just heart-wrenching to see people's outpouring of sympathy and concern.

Deborah Porter

The people coming forward for help know the perpetrators are the people who are supposed to love them. It's an absolutely horrendous wrench.

Jasvinder Sanghera

It was absolutely heart-wrenching, absolutely agonizing.

Paul Rosenthal

It's an ugly, gut-wrenching thing to watch.

Julia Parrish

It was heart-wrenching and humiliating. We were unbelievably bad.

Peter Thomas

The living conditions down there are horrible, but with what we have to accomplish, we'll be working so hard we won't be concerned with ourselves. We've seen the pictures on TV and we've seen the still photos in newspapers and so forth, but until you go and travel those streets and see everything yourself, you cannot imagine or comprehend what has happened down there. It's gut-wrenching.

Freddie Debose

We're all about the testosterone. If you can't find it in our store, we've got a catalog that's 500 pages of sheer, gut-wrenching, screaming power.

Roger Bunn