Sentence examples for Discouraging number from inspiring English sources

Although the index dropped again on Monday, the discouraging number registered as more of the same.

HE economy lost 467,000 jobs in June, a deeply discouraging number at a time when other indicators have suggested the recession may be ending.

January 26 , 2014Here's another potentially discouraging number for the White House: public approval of the president's signature health care legislation appears to be languishing at around negative 14. That's per Huff Pollster's aggregation of 363 polls from 47 pollsters.

"There's a discouraging number of properties that have already gone away," said David A. Smith, president of Boston-based Recapitalization Advisors Inc., a firm that specializes in financing affordable housing.

A discouraging number of checks, illustrated by the author in his manual, are passed successfully although extremely crude in execution: The dollar amount, $15 is simply kited to $115 by adding a 1 and with a clumsy addition of "One" to the "Fifteen" on the written line.

Despite the discouraging poll numbers, supporters of reform should not lose heart.

Mr. Snyder turned aside suggestions that the senator's busy activity was a response to discouraging poll numbers.

But there were also discouraging poll numbers in Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania, which was holding its Republican primary on 24 April.

As for where the money would come from for any of this, Mr. Booker said that he would find it — despite what he said were discouraging budget numbers — even if it meant "starving" other, non-essential programs.

Another consignment of discouraging employment numbers in the United States was seized on yesterday by Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger in the presidential race, as evidence that the economic policies of President Barack Obama are misconceived and that voters should fire him in November.

These difficulties discouraged a number of Muslim women from seeking skilled birthing services [ 13].