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• However, while permanent immunity was certain, the procedure itself was ' costly, clumsy, heartbreaking and dangerous ', as one vet put it.

• It is sickening, heartbreaking and real.

• Bilingual education is an inspirational but heartbreaking book to read, especially for someone like me who spent so much passion in the '70s as an advocate for bilingual education.

• Then it grew stronger through one ghastly winter after another, through repeated and heartbreaking postponements of the hope of liberty and indeed of life itself.

• No doubt, they have occurred in a minority of places, but those revelations have been heartbreaking and, invariably, repairing the damage has been almost impossible.

• It is heartbreaking for those who are trying to run our prison service to find them so inadequately equipped.

• It is pitiable, it is heartbreaking, that this sort of thing should go on month by month and year by year.

• The sight of more and more fanners having to give up is too heartbreaking to contemplate.