1.   Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to confide in the man and woman who had eased their suffering.

2.   Scottish aid workers are airlifting urgent medical supplies to help ease the suffering of a sick Bosnian man in the former Yugoslavia.

3.   Their hope is to ease the suffering, but their worst fear is that many of the creatures have been claimed by a black tide of death.

4.   And for those who work to ease their suffering, the disease takes a toll of a different kind.

5.   And they welcomed the striking workers with hugs and hearty handshakes, embracing them like exiled royalty returning at long last to ease the suffering of their people.

6.   But he sharply criticized the Bush administration for failing to help ease the suffering of the Palestinian people.

7.   But most satisfying, says Hansen, a native New Yorker, is easing the suffering of children who are sick and in pain with the joy of learning.

8.   Failure to investigate the possibility of easing the suffering of millions would be the real crime against humanity.

9.   Hamas has long said that the money goes to social causes, easing the suffering of Palestinians.

10.   He knows their executions may ease the suffering of the families of the victims they brutalized.