Sentence examples for by the distressing from inspiring English sources

The well-known places, regardless of their borough, have been strongly affected by the distressing news reports.

But these moments of fun were overshadowed by the distressing visits into the CMU.

Grieved by the distressing scenes he found in that city's morgues, police stations and hospitals, he wrote "Sister Carrie," according to his obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 1945.

The cognitive dissonance of placing an Asian woman onstage in a beauty queen role that would have been denied her in real life was compounded by the distressing fact that, three years prior, her Japanese father had been arrested and interned along with over 100,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.

Speculation by Motography states that Mack's "contribution to the screen drama was probably prompted by the distressing Ruth Cruger mystery, which was so cleverly solved by Mrs. Grace Humiston, and follows very closely many of the phases of drama in real life that shocked the world".

Former British Prime Minister and UN envoy Gordon Brown marked World Humanitarian Day this week by highlighting the distressing fact that, today, there are 30 million "displaced boys and girls" around the planet.

Active coping is used to handle the problem arousing emotional distress, whereas passive coping is used to handle the distressing emotions caused by the problem [ 12].

You will, like me, have been appalled by the deeply distressing pictures of children drowned, and heard the stories of people suffocated to death in smugglers' lorries.

A lengthy report on these incidents published today by the Constitution Project included the distressing detail that the specific chemical combinations being deployed in the wake of the pentobarbital shortages are banned in some states from use by veterinarians when putting down animals.

Active coping emphasises positive coping characteristics, such as 'handling the distressing emotions caused by the problem'.

Further, the distressing emotions described by the participants, such as sadness, anger, or shame are all likely to have contributed towards self-poisoning behaviour.