Sentence examples for called distressing from inspiring English sources

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The video also illustrated what rights activists called a distressing trend of atrocities committed by both sides in the 20-month-old conflict.

She also said that the opposition was getting messages from the ungoverned areas in Pakistan where some of the Qaeda leadership was believed to be hiding — a development she called "deeply distressing".

Mr. Cuomo called it "very distressing" and said Albany's lawmakers "failed the people of New York once again".

But Marianne Bertrand, a University of Chicago economist who oversaw the survey as the head of a special committee on the professional climate in economics, called the results distressing.

Mary Beth Harvey, the president of NYC-Parents in Action, a prominent parent group that organizes discussion groups in private schools, called the show distressing.

A substantial majority of survey respondents called their most distressing episode one of the top 10 biggest challenges of their lives, though most also reported the experience to be "meaningful" or "worthwhile," with half of these positive responses claiming it as one of the most valuable experiences in their life.

In a memorandum issued late Thursday, Stanley Brezenoff, the chief executive of Continuum Health Partners, which includes St . Lukes-Roosevelt, called the action "most distressing".

She called the attacks "deeply distressing" but said closed borders were not the answer, and the "dream of a whole, free Europe … should not be walked away from".

When 66 officers and inmates were hurt in a melee last month, Mr. Kasanof called the incident "particularly distressing and ominous" because it suggested that the city could not control inmates at a time of relatively little overcrowding.

On the issue of eurobonds, Mrs Merkel called the idea "extraordinarily distressing".