Sentence examples for a discouraging development from inspiring English sources

To come to New York and repel a Yankees advance in the standings by even a game would serve as a discouraging development for the Yankees.

While none of the Mets' executives would discuss Reyes's status until they had a complete diagnosis, this was a discouraging development.

The official American response to the attacks on the P.K.K., which was delivered on Twitter by the Presidential envoy Brett McGurk, seemed to support the A.K.P.'s actions, no doubt a discouraging development for Turkey's Kurds.

It took Stamkos eight games to score his first N.H.L. goal, which was a discouraging development for Tampa Bay fans, who anticipated instant stardom when the team made Stamkos the centerpiece of its off-season marketing efforts.

In releasing its survey of union membership last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics also found that the number of union members declined by 200,000 last year to 16.3 million, a discouraging development for the labor movement at a time it is straining to reverse the decline.

Jonathan Temin, director of the Sudan and South Sudan program at the United States Institute of Peace, an independent but Congressionally financed organization, called Mr. Bashir's threat "a discouraging development given the relative progress over the past couple of months implementing parts of the cooperation agreement".

"I think that for Western political figures who write books and who have pride in their work and want to see it published accurately, this is a very discouraging development," Mr. Barnett said of the failure to reach an agreement with Yilin.

That trend is due in part to stronger hiring of men, but also to a more discouraging development: men are dropping out of the labor force in very high numbers.

For many, that would have been an extremely discouraging development.

More on that discouraging development tomorrow.

The only other time that happened in the past decade was at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and the discouraging development for the specialists who practice their poaching techniques and reflex volleys year round is that the singles stars have so far taken command at Indian Wells at their expense.