11.  Last year, Steffi Graf was bothered by a bone spur in her lower back that made her trip to the final a painful one.

12.  Mainly, it seems, because people laugh at silly humor, and animal predicaments, particularly painful ones, are part of that time-honored genre.

13.  That bill would be a painful one for the Conservative Party, which has a scant two-seat majority in Parliament.

14.  That lesson was a painful one to learn.

15.  That is the crucial question and a painful one, given the shameful miscalculation by the Clinton administration when it gave the go-ahead for the air campaign against Milosevic.

16.  The decision to urge her son and his wife to divorce was a painful one for the queen.

17.  The idea was to give them some fun, happy memories to replace the painful ones.

18.  The issue is a painful one, however, for some members of the advisory committees.

19.  The path from potential landmark to veritable footnote is a painful one for a court that guards its power of review so jealously.

20.  The purpose, administrators say, is to teach cadets that all orders, even painful ones, must be followed.