"The deficit cannot be brought down without making painful decisions."

He said that his resignation had been "the most painful and difficult decision of my life."

It is a painful decision for a man who has known little besides a soldier's life.

"I'm sure this was a painful decision for you to make."

He was faced with the most painful decision of his life.

It's been a painful decision for me, whether to carry on touring or not.

We will, in future, be forced to make other, even more painful decisions.

We are talking about women and men, often accompanied by children, who have taken the painful decision to leave their countries.

I believe this difficult and painful decision should be left to the women of America.

I think this small step was a painful decision for the Obama administration.

"It was one of those agonizing decisions we have to make in this business."

It had been his most agonizing decision, but he'd made it.

The first agonizing decision is what not to pack.

"It was a very agonizing decision that I have been going over the last couple of years."

The judge's second most agonizing decision might have been whether to run for Governor.

There was one present which gave Diana the most agonizing decision of her young life.

It was a very agonizing decision that I had been thinking about the last few years.

All at once, as if making a difficult and agonizing decision, he came back, handing Nicholas his cup.

Choosing to quit my job and go back to school was an agonizing decision for me.

He was faced with an agonizing decision, and one that had to be made in a heartbeat.