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  • Companies which have more conservative management will in the longer term suffer.

    World of SL 2009

  • Granted, young man, if you take out that word suffer.

    Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography 1893

  • Reality: the poor and the unemployed, recession or no recession, always suffer. in other words, they never really 'feel it' in the kind of society we have.

    IOL: News 2009

  • Origin: Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio (n -) (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from Latin pati "suffer."

    Anne Naylor: Finding Passion and Purpose in Suffering 2010

  • Origin: Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passio (n -) (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from Latin pati "suffer."

    Anne Naylor: Finding Passion and Purpose in Suffering 2010

  • "Those who are not born to it, however, can" -- she had to fight to mouth the unfamiliar word -- "suffer."

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • But these things are not necessary to human happiness: it is possible to do without them and yet not "suffer."

    Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

  • They recently read in the Post-Gazette that PETA is advocating Punxsutawney Phil be replaced by a robot so the animal no longer has to "suffer."

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • This word root made its way up into Latin where pati meant "suffer."

    podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history Charles Hodgson 2008

  • I'm not snarking ... you're bound to get a few good links here, but this is a very personal philosophical issue, and one that individuals on all sides feel strongly about, so it's not as cut and dried as figuring out which animals "suffer."

    Ask MetaFilter 2008

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