agonising choice

One day, the agonising choice is going to return again: accept less sovereignty inside a single-currency bloc, or stay outside.

Mrs Stoneman, 31, faced an agonising choice when doctors said the radiotherapy tripled the odds in his favour.

In fact no such agonising choice confronted Charles's men: Lothar himself recognised that his own position was dangerously exposed; and winter was close.

It would be an agonising choice which would probably be left as late as possible, June 7 being the deadline by which they have to declare their Olympic squads.

In what is heralded as a vote of conscience, any conscience ought to be deeply troubled by the agonising choice between respecting human embryos from their earliest moments and responding to the plight of infertile couples.

Right, except firstly, it isn't an agonising choice: Do we want to join a single currency which has been an unmitigated disaster, and which would force us to become a vassal state of Germany, or do we not?

Thirty years later the elderly George Lyttelton reminisced, "Did you never know the agonising choice put before you in the pre-war Simpson's - saddle of mutton or beef ... both perfect of their kind?"

For them, there does not have to be the agonising choice of warmth or food, because SSAFA, the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, exists to provide help for service and ex-service people, their widows, families and dependents in any crisis.

Iunker's Ifigeneia has sprung from Euripede's tragedy Iphigeneia in Aulis based on the myth of Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces in Troy who makes the agonising choice of sacrificing his daughter to win favourable winds for his ships sailing against Troy.