Sentence examples for appalling disability from inspiring English sources

Brain surgeons such as Henry Marsh, the author of this startling and moving memoir, have to live, breathe, operate and make urgent decisions in full awareness of a terrible dilemma: if they open the skull they might save the patient's life, but a slip of the scalpel can cause appalling disability, which, as Marsh puts it, can be much worse than death.

As long as institutions like Winterbourne View are allowed to exist, we will continue to hear these appalling stories of people with learning disabilities suffering and even dying from neglect".

Beverley Dawkins, policy manager for the learning disability charity Mencap, said: "These were appalling acts of cruelty and the evidence was very powerful".

And since taking office, the president — and the GOP writ large — have delivered incessant and appalling attacks on the rights of people with disabilities.

It is an appalling throwback to a time when people with disabilities were viewed as "less than" and we must now end this unfair and discriminatory practice.

The treatment of people with learning disabilities by health and social care is appalling, and I have no sense of that changing".

"It is appalling that organizations that purport to assist workers with disabilities in job training, would hold them back by circumventing the standard of living that minimum wage provides other American workers".

On the other hand, since people with disabilities constitute the world's largest minority, it is appalling that we are so underrepresented.

Like Sinisterra, Williams had endured an appalling childhood, marked by frequent and extreme sexual and physical abuse, and had grave intellectual disabilities.

Bruce Calderwood, director of mental health, disability and equality at the Department of Health, said the episode described by Cooper was "completely unacceptable, just appalling".

It's appalling — appalling.