Sentence examples for dismayed for from inspiring English sources

They and others were deeply dismayed, for example, by his record on reproductive rights and on long-settled issues like the desegregation of public schools.

They are understandably dismayed, for example, by the behaviour of Britain's young, who are statistically the worst-behaved in Europe on an wide range of measures.So what identity might a more united Britain strive towards?

She was dismayed, for example, when a State Department official seemed to ascribe Nigeria's bomb attacks on Christians more to poverty than to religious zealotry.Whether they work inside the corridors of power or outside them, all religious-freedom advocates in Washington, DC, find they have to make pragmatic arguments as well as moral ones.

They had reason to be dismayed, for their visitor -- this writer, then 26 and working for The Globe and Mail, a Canadian paper that alone among Western newspapers had a bureau in China -- had had only a few months of instruction in Chinese, and knew little more of the country than could be gleaned from a half dozen books.

Tillerson was reportedly dismayed, for this and many other reasons.

Do not fear, for I am yet with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God.

I've been one of Bell's much dismayed fans for a long time and this is surely the innings for him to reward our faith/ hopeless susceptibility to clean classical stroke play.

The decision has embarrassed the district attorney's office and dismayed advocates for crime victims.

In the middle of this Gogol sandwich was the First Symphony, at its zany, cartoon heart that sudden, dismayed song for solo cello (Kristine Blaumane).

Those who hoped that, alongside this, we should see the rise of a diverse, semi-socialised banking sector were dismayed as, for example, the caja de ahorro sector in Spain, and then the Co-operative Bank in the UK, entered crises contingent on mismanagement and their entanglement with politics.

Newt Gingrich, who had earlier asked "how can I trust you with power if you don't pray"—we'll let that one pass in dismayed silence for a moment jumped in to condemn "historically illiterate" politicians, by which he did not, somehow, mean the other people standing with him on the stage.