Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.

Almost febrile in intensity, the principle has become worldwide in application -- unfortunately at the very time that nationalist fervors can wreak greatest harm.

The expression has become quite a cliche.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.

At this point, of course, the issue has become complicated by a development unforeseen by Lappenberg and Kemble.

soyaburgers have replaced meat, and wood has become so precious that it is saved for expensive jewelry ; ;

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

he has become Friday on Dragnet, a mouthpiece of arbitrary police authority.

The Nashville plan, incidentally, has become recognized as perhaps the most acceptable and thus the most practical to put into effect in the troubled South.

The second great dilemma has been the morality of nuclear testing, a dilemma which has suddenly become acute because of the present series of Soviet tests.

The second choice, full testing, has become even more risky just because the current Soviet tests have already dangerously contaminated the atmosphere.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

He has become in this half century the grand old man of American history.

This financial assistance from the state has become necessary because the local governments themselves found the property tax, or at least at the rates then existing, insufficient for their requirements.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

This delightful tropical fruit has become well-known in the past thirty years because modern transportation methods have made it possible to ship avocados anywhere in the United States.

Boating has become a giant whose strides cover the entire nation from sea to shining sea.

With modern techniques of woodworking and the multitude of cutting tools, fixtures, and attachments available, the drill press has become a basic home workshop tool.

This covered, wooden bridge is so closely identified with the first action in the early morning of June 3, 1861, and with subsequent troop movements of both armies in the Philippi area that it has become a part and parcel of the war story.

Nowhere has this decline been more painfully evident than in the New York City area.

In these stories a person either has painfully acquired something or has lost it and then regained it.

In another instance Emma enters Steed's flat to find he has just fallen down the stairs, and he painfully gasps, " Mrs. Peel, you're needed.

On the other hand, the game has no goal ; once the city is painfully mapped out, the only thing left to do is monotonously battle enemies in preparation for The Dungeon.

Because the air inside the suit is compressed as the diver descends, a modern diving dry suit also has a gas inflation valve, which lets the diver control the buoyancy of the suit by injecting gas from a diving cylinder to avoid the suit from being squeezed tightly and painfully onto the diver's body during descent.

" About a year later, O ' Connor said while the show " has its weak spots, most notably in a pointless tendency to be smarmy " with " clips ... that are sometimes less witty than painfully obvious.

For instance, if a character has their hand over their mouth in a medium shot, and not in their close-up, this little detail, which probably was not noticed on set, is now painfully obvious to the viewers.

: My Lords, I am acutely, indeed somewhat painfully, conscious of the great honour which the noble Earl Lord Home, ( aka Alec Douglas-Home ) the Leader of the House has done me in inviting me to move the humble Address to Her Majesty.

Del has often commented on Trigger's painfully low intelligence ; " You could tell the state our school was in ; Trigger was head boy.

" Jack Garner of USA Today condemned the film, finding it more " cynical " than satirical, stating " this painfully bad movie has been inspired strictly by the potential jingle of cash registers.

While such critics have delighted in viewing Migjeni as a product of ‘ pre-liberation ’ Zogist Albania, it has become painfully evident that the poet ’ s ‘ songs unsung ,’ after half a century of communist dictatorship in Albania, are now more compelling than ever.

Once it is freed of the ice Julien discovers that it has a powerful static electric charge on its surface and painfully shocks anyone who touches it.

The Pit has a reputation as one of the loudest arenas in the country, often resulting in painfully high decibel levels.

He shoots Knives in the leg and after witnessing the pain and shock his brother has just experienced, Vash in a dismaying panic then takes both guns and flees into the desert as Knives painfully calls out to him to comeback.

While Bangalore-Tumkur was doubled and opened to traffic two years back, progress on other sections has been painfully slow.

Jed talks to Andy, who has been in the waiting room, and advises him to agree to the removal of Tracy's second ovary, rather than risk her life ; Andy painfully agrees, since this will mean that Tracy can never have children.

Spike has previously shown an interest in another soap opera, Passions, when held by the Scooby Gang in Giles ' apartment, as well as when Giles painfully admitted to having watched Passions with Spike out of boredom.

Mike Hale of the New York Times has considered The Boondocks among the top television shows of 2010, citing the episode " Pause " as a " painfully funny " satire of Tyler Perry being portrayed as a superstar actor and a leader of a homoerotic cult.

The last scene has the sympathetic teacher see Junius and his son, cleaned and well dressed though painfully so, on their way back to San Francisco where Junius will go back to dull work and ill-health in order to provide for his unwilling son.