running sore

Darfur has been a running sore for far too long.

The Palestinians were a running sore because the system could not expand to take them in.

The issue has become a running sore for the government, raising questions about the effects of the government's economic strategy.

"And tell him, from me, to do something about that running sore on his arm," he said.

"The fair employment issue is a running sore in the minority community."

Look at the running sore of stop and search.

You were nothing but a running sore to him."

In other words, Fast and Furious will be a running sore for the administration.

Gaza has been allowed to remain a running sore.

Its flesh was pale as dough and covered with running sores.

Look at that disgusting running sore on your leg.

It stopped about seven or eight feet away, and a hand covered with open, running sores lifted a paper bag.

The yellow plague mark was like a running sore.

He did not, either, make any effort to heal the running sore that was his presence among those who continued the fight against Rome.

Utah and the Mormons had been a running sore on the body politic for much too long.

"How would you cauterize that running sore, for instance?"

A real running sore of a planet, but we won't be here long; it's just a message stop."

That was a running sore that would not heal.

His skin was a sheet of running sores.

The running sores had become bloated, splitting flesh; she was eaten alive.

Conjunctivitis,29 all running sores and any condition which refuses to heal, etc.

Terrorism is a running sore, which may flare up if moves are made without the backing of the Security Council.

Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.

I think it not merely an occasional wrong to other peoples, but a continuous feebleness, a running sore, in my own.

Labour's failure to end so-called two-tier workforces have been another running sore.