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But, he said, it will take more than one good season to make up for the punishingly low returns of recent years.

New Jersey has long had punishingly high property tax rates.

And support yourself in what I fear will be a punishingly expensive environment.

Maybe it could be done monthly rather than the punishingly weekly?

Most businesses simply cannot borrow, while others pay punishingly high interest rates.

Americans pay punishingly high premiums, much of which land in lawyers' bank accounts.

To many it would seem boring, or at least punishingly anachronistic.

At first, his mind too punishingly battered, he couldn't even grasp what was taking place.

Whether the day is mercifully cool or punishingly warm, as it was yesterday, they must keep moving.

Then, on one punishingly cold afternoon, I entered what pinball players call "the zone."

Prognosis - not a punishingly long course, but you'll need to be a good putter to break par!.

In contrast, the tie bet has a punishingly high house edge of 14.4%.

I played through three stages, and while the introductory portion was relatively simple, the last two sections were punishingly difficult.

He rushed into the Porto music-center project, which has a punishingly short deadline.

While Mexico's recession has been deeper than expected and unemployment remains punishingly high, exports have surged.

It was a punishingly hot June morning.

He went at it very hard: punishingly, perhaps even at that stage, dangerously hard.

The sun never climbed quite as punishingly high in the zenith, and it rained mote often.

Indeed, his eyes fill and he presses his fingers to his mouth punishingly hard.

Farming there has been punishingly hard.

Hong Kong's subtropical climate can make it a punishingly hot and humid destination during the summer months.

I pushed on between the punishingly tight trees until I met Sam coming back, relaxed.

Legroom in the rear is limited, but not punishingly limited: two adults can fit back there.

The bad news: human hardship, with unemployment and inflation exceeding expectations and loan rates punishingly high.

Unemployment and inflation are both exceeding the Government's projections, and interest rates on loans have remained punishingly high.