Placing a child that you have carried for nine months in the arms of another family has to be the most gut-wrenching decision one can make.

"This type of end-of-life, gut-wrenching decision happens every day."

IT is one of the truly gut-wrenching decisions in most people's lives: why buy, or sell, a home now?

The British commanders were forced into one of the most gut-wrenching decisions an officer can ever make.

"At the time, it was one of those gut-wrenching decisions."

Mr. Bettman said the league's owners had to make "gut-wrenching decisions" after "these considerations were given a great deal of weight."

"It's a very gut-wrenching decision," said Tom Lewis, the strike chairman.

It was a gut-wrenching decision, but as the days dragged on he appeared to spend more time talking to me.

"We made a gut-wrenching decision that was forced upon us by the protesters," he explained.

"A President of the United States," he says, "has about six to eight gut-wrenching decisions every day."