Some parts of the administration have been slower to reach this point than others. In the midst of the May attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney famously said that the insurgency was in its last throes. ... Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.
Quotes about throes (16 Quotes)
We are witnessing the death throes of Sunni power in Iraq. They face stark choices.
I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
His mind was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
It's an interim measure, not the ultimate solution. You are in the throes of making some historic decisions. This will help take down the heat. It would just make life a lot easier here.
Approving gay marriage is the correct and moral thing to do, even if the country isn't ready for it. Just as it took major movements to oppose sexism and racism, we are in the now midst of the first throes ... a long hard slog.
If there is one thing that no responsible Zimbabwean can deny today, it is that our country is in the throes of a devastating economic meltdown.
It's an accumulation of things. In Iraq, it's the reality versus the perception and the whole debate of whether we're in the last throes of the insurgency or in for a dozen more years. The momentum has been building toward the media regaining its sea legs.
This is a rare opportunity to watch a comet in its death throes from very close range.
Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
I hate technology. I have no landline. I have no mobile phone (it's currently almost literally thrashing around in the throes of death). I'm nearly useless now.
Our job is to essentially make all of Times Square into a giant theater stage and television set. We are currently in the throes of the final rituals of preparation surrounding the yearly ritual of New Year's Eve.