After three days the family made the agonising decision to switch the machine off when they were told he would not recover.

Simon then had the agonising decision as to whether Wizard should stay or go off to pastures new.

It had been the most difficult decision Peter Stone had made in all his years of agonising decisions.

I know one day we will all cross paths again and I hope so much you will support me in this agonising decision.

His mother made the agonising decision to leave her husband and family to get her little boy away from a war zone these people describe as sheer hell.

Modesty said, "Well... at least he's saved us some agonising decisions over what to do about Salamander Four.

It was an agonising decision by the Archdiocese of Nairobi and Archbishop McArthy.

We've had difficult decisions, we've had agonising decisions, but we've stayed together in unity to protect, as much as we possibly can, our communities.

Charlotte then breaks up with Steve and later makes the agonising decision to commit Gladys to a home after she develops Alzheimer's and causes a fire.

If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday's trip to Leeds, Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country.

The mounting violence came as the parents of Tim Parry, the 12-year-old victim of the IRA's Warrington bombing, made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine.

Some time ago, an agonising decision, I have to admit, I voted in favour of a report which supported facilitating a switch to legal poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, with production being used in pain-relieving drugs.

A FATHER told a murder trial yesterday of the agonising decision to switch off his baby son's life support machine after he had been severely brain damaged while in the care of the nurse Beverley Allitt.

In the age of the life-support machine, we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days, when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable.

If that happens, millions of social housing tenants will be forced to make an agonising decision: stay put and live in hardship, or move home and attempt to find a cheaper place to live, away from family, support networks and their children's school.

A man dedicated to his craft, lean, hollow-checked, nervous, and perpetually balanced on what seemed to be the knife edge of agonising decisions, he walked softly and talked softly as if he were perpetually afraid that the gods might hear him.

By not using nuclear weapons and with repeated assurances via the hotline of limited goals and negotiable conquests, the Russians face the president of the United states with ' agonising decisions' and he hesitates in making any nuclear commitment for several vital days.