Sentence examples for discomfiting from inspiring English sources

There are only 10 songs and each one, as deliberately discomfiting as it might be, contains the essential properties of a pop song.

Mr Takenaka was once enthusiastic about the prospects for stronger leadership.As barons in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party last month sought the means to silence the opposition on the subject of political-funding scandals, speculation grew that Mr Abe might call a snap election by the end of this year, discomfiting an opposition in general disarray.

Rising prices are also discomfiting Asia's other developing economies (see chart).

The Montenegrin election has more chance of discomfiting Mr Milosevic, but already there are fears of martial law should his foe win.

Yet preying on their minds is a discomfiting fact: nothing they have done has worked, and they don't know why.

It is seeping into the salons of power, discomfiting Russia's leaders and their bizniz cronies.

So illiterate is some of the bluster coming from top policymakers, and so discomfiting some of their actions, that investors' confidence has been badly battered.

Some 17,000 traders in banks, insurance companies, sovereign-wealth funds and others rely in part on BlackRock's analytical models to guide their investing.Aladdin's geniusThat is a tribute to BlackRock's elaborate risk-management models, but it is also discomfiting.

Large American aid to ailing carmakers is discomfiting European governments that are under pressure to follow suit.

But some results are discomfiting (at least for those with this newspaper's views).

That will be discomfiting when the government is clamping down on tax dodgers and offering an amnesty to lure back capital.