Sentence examples for dismaying example from inspiring English sources

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India, the country that probably has the largest epidemic, is another dismaying example.

Chase Manhattan Bank's announced move from lower Manhattan to the New Jersey waterfront (news article, June 2) is another dismaying example of the Giuliani administration's failure to keep valuable corporate jobs in New York City.

"Excuse me" the apology became "Excuse me?" the accusation, used in roughly the same way as the scornful "Really?" (I heard it employed just that way the other day on the Disney teenage series "Jessie," a dismaying example for our young people).

We've been confronted recently with the dismaying example of Barclays bank, where highly rewarded non-executive directors did nothing to ensure staff behaved properly and were clearly completely in thrall to chief executive Bob Diamond over his own pay and policy.

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Janie's panting teen-age sexuality is rendered in a self-consciously hyper-adolescent prose of kissing bees and creaming blossoms — prose that Wright seized on for its "facile sensuality" and that Hurston's admirers now quote with dismaying regularity as an example of her literary art.

The Council of Europe this week noted with dismay, for example, the failure to introduce promised electoral reform measures, or to allow the opposition unrestricted access to CCTV footage of polling stations.It is hard to overstate Georgia's importance for the West.

The results were dismaying.

"It's becoming really dismaying.

Bizarre – and somewhat dismaying.

The precedents were dismaying.

The numbers are dismaying.

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