This was so sickening people died because of cartoons.

Her cats, God knows how many, who must piss on her rugs her landing's a sickening reek.

Unfortunately, Khamenei thought so, too, and made sure that Ahmadinejad held onto his presidency. This was a sickening blow to all Iranians who crave the dignity of democratic politics.

NEW DELHI The headlines out of India in recent weeks have often made sickening reading. Startlingly, the central protagonist in most of these stories is that most peaceable and innocent of animals, the cow.

Third, Russia is already facing massive demographic decline and an aging and sickening population China faces the near certainty of a Japanese style demographic downturn from the 2040 s onward, a belated legacy of its one child policy.

China has also gained a reputation for food and drug contamination (not to mention lead paint in toys and poisonous toothpaste). For example, in 2008, the industrial chemical melamine was added to milk products in order to give falsely high readings of milk protein, causing the death of six infants and sickening 300,000 other people.