Sentence examples for a discouraging record from inspiring English sources

While city and state investigators did not fault the agency directly in each death, in every case they linked agency personnel to a chain of failures and oversights in protecting the children — a discouraging record even for the perilous world of foster care.

GM says it will ensure the GTO is up to snuff, but Detroit has a discouraging record with rush-job imports from overseas subsidiaries.

That's a discouraging book recommendation if I've ever seen one.

This discouraging record is hardly improved by Mr. Paterson's poor approval ratings.

Given the expected swelling numbers of those at risk and the discouraging record of progress in finding therapies that could reverse or cure Alzheimer's, Evans wrote, a shift in emphasis toward the prevention "seems warranted".

In an editorial in JAMA in late December, Dr. Denis A. Evans, a neurologist at Rush University Medical Center, wrote that a shift in emphasis toward Alzheimer's prevention "seems warranted," given the swelling numbers of those at risk and the discouraging record of progress in finding therapies to reverse or cure Alzheimer's.

This discouraging record has been well known for decades and has been exacerbated ever since Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law.

The fact that Ms. Owen, who was briefly signed to Capitol Records, then dropped in a management shake-up, has had to go it alone is a discouraging sign that the record industry, which 20 years ago would have snapped her up and made her a star, is in shambles.

The moment is a discouraging hang-up in a book that is otherwise so candid.

Bynum's career mark from beyond the arc (entering Saturday's game) is a discouraging 12.5 percent, far below Nowitzki's 38 percent, but in the realm of star Lakers centers, Bynum's record looks better.

It was a discouraging setback.