Sentence examples for been a discouraging effort from inspiring English sources

Despite the scale of the rewards, it has been a discouraging effort.

It was a discouraging effort by Chamberlain, who had several factors lined up to show progress.

But the spread of polio to Benin and Cameroon, which the Geneva-based United Nations agency is expected to announce this week, is a discouraging setback in its $4.6 billion effort to have polio join smallpox as the only diseases to be eliminated from the human population.

It was a discouraging time.

It was a discouraging moment.

It was a discouraging setback.

But it was a discouraging start.

And again, there is a discouraging precedent.

Put it all together, and it's a discouraging picture.

It's a discouraging thought for anyone past adolescence.

It's a discouraging prelude to the games.