1. After much soul-searching she decided to leave.

2. After much soul-searching, I decided to resign.

3. After much soul-searching, he decided it was wrong to vote in the elections.

4. After days of soul-searching he finally came to the decision to leave home.

5. Putnam's article sparked enormous debate and soul-searching.

6. Their music is driven by soul-searching.

7. Nothing dramatic, no soul-searching ... Guy had gone to get a paper, and some fresh croissants from a nearby bakery.

8. It caused a great deal of soul-searching, and I really wondered if I could do it.

9. Reluctantly, and after much soul-searching, they decided to respond to Lvov's invitation.

10. So the honeymoon was memorable for the soul-searching I did and the tears I shed.

11. One looks in vain for any evidence of soul-searching among the legal clan.

12. In his autobiography, Davis recalls a soul-searching meeting with Sly about his direction.

13. The consequent soul-searching often includes as much self-mockery as it does social criticism, and for this reason it is not subversive.

14. In fact, encounters with others will produce real soul-searching.

15. The incident has triggered widespread soul-searching with even the state-run media wringing their hands over the state of Chinese society.

16. It was after a lot of soul-searching that we broke the story, urging you to return the money.

17. Their three-week "soul-searching" reindoctrination programme will include a trek across the country and meditation aimed at "changing their attitude and enhancing patience," the city said.

18. My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.

19. People began to question the role of humans in the scheme of things and there was a resurgence of shallow religious soul-searching.

20. After some further outside tests and a fair amount of soul-searching, I eventually bought this detector and the 10.5in accessory coil.

21. Diana was sympathetic, but did not fully understand his unrest, nor his frantic soul-searching.

22. Dilemmas like these can force your organization into some uncomfortable soul-searching, and equally uncomfortable self-revelation.

22. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

23. The survivors of reengineering, downsizing, rightsizing, and so on are asking themselves soul-searching questions about life after the lay-offs.

24. The possibility that husbands might fail to provide altogether caused some soul-searching during the late nineteenth century.

25. Marriage is such a huge, life-altering decision, it's only natural that it be a choice two people make together, after much discussion and personal soul-searching.

26. A couple of years ago, John did a bit of soul-searching in his travels, but now he's got a kid and is more of a homebody.

27. That is beautiful as well, but there is also a soul-searching power in doing an odyssey on your own.

28. Everyone, and I mean everyone, should be engaged in serious soul-searching, asking how much of what he or she thought was true actually isn't.

29. Roberts, who portrays Gilbert, told Reuters in a separate interview that she could relate to Gilbert's soul-searching.

30. Stephen Lawrence and James Bulger were both included because of the "overwhelming soul-searching and examination of education and social policy" which followed their deaths.

31. Take some time to mull over these questions, do some soul-searching, and then if you think you have what it takes, go for it.

32. Even though they were often tough on me, the pastors took me past the politics into soul-searching and the power of Gods love.

33. But in Atlanta earlier this month, the annual meeting of the American Economic Association was home to more soul-searching than number crunching.

34. But the U.S. political system is never especially fond of soul-searching or admitting past error -- author Gore Vidal refers to the U.S. as "the United States of Amnesia."

35. West Point's Jeff Peterson recounted the standard story line of the Army's soul-searching after Vietnam.

36. I, too, tried out many different occupations and did a lot of soul-searching to discover who I was and what I had to contribute.http:///soul-searching.html

37. To make the best out of web surfing, you'll need to start with some soul-searching.

38. And then, after three years of rewriting and soul-searching, after I'd finally presented what I'd hoped might be an acceptable draft to my agent, she sent it back to me saying, "Do it again.

39. But he liked the people he worked with, so he did some soul-searching, asking himself whether he was unhappy because of someone else or because of his own attitude.

40. It'll require a lot of reflection and soul-searching, at first, then a lot of courage and learning and experimentation, and finally a lot of commitment.