Farrah, a 23-year-old woman from Derry, said attempts to end her pregnancy added significant stress to an already distressing time in her life.
Obama's fiscal deal offer was already distressing — cuts to Social Security, and a big concession, it turns out, on taxation of dividends, retaining most of the Bush cut (with the benefits flowing overwhelmingly to the top 1 percent).
Studies have shown that negative aspects of the built environment tend to interact with and magnify health disparities, compounding already distressing conditions.
The physical state of the courthouse alone, he adds, exacerbates what is already a distressing situation.
BOSTON — After Tim Wakefield floated 13 knuckleballs, it was already a distressing night for the Red Sox.
"A mental health crisis can already be distressing for individuals and all those involved, but when people aren't getting the right support or care it can have very serious consequences," said Clegg.
(He's already showing a distressing lack of concern over whether his cherished eggheads bend the rules, like Tim Geithner's not paying all his taxes, because, after all, they're the Best and the Brightest, not ordinary folk).
District procurator fiscal Andrew Richardson said after the sentencing: "The cruel and callous actions of Sean Duffy added to what was already a very distressing and traumatic time for people trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.
The corporation, already suffering with another distressing Rangers start, is watching.
And how, most of all, despite the ravishing exterior of the Taniguchi building, the new interior feels labyrinthine, sterile, impersonal and, most distressing of all, already too small for its permanent collection, its temporary exhibitions and its expanding public.
The netsuke reflect husband and wife's central, if unacknowledged, conflict — her devotion to a precise and pristine aesthetic, to perfect views and masterly carvings, versus his compulsion to have annihilating sex with people whose lives have already carved them into various distressing shapes.
