Sentence examples for distress against from inspiring English sources

"When a boy walks out with a sword, we always say, 'Swords are for protecting damsels in distress against dragons.

While protesting that it's Europe, not him, who has changed (a corny line from the divorce courts) and that he's joining the underdog team, Boris is actually lining up with the team that makes him feel better – not ordinary folk who feel left behind in modern Britain and vent their distress against immigrants, but the oligarch media pack and dodgier elements in the City.

Say you settle a suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress against your neighbor for $100,000, and your lawyer keeps $40,000.

She is claiming they invaded her privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress against her and violated Montana's Anti-Intimidation Act.

This being a 'no-fault' divorce state, the Family Code does not allow a spouse to recover damages for such things as emotional distress against the cheating spouse.

The 42-year-old filed a countersuit earlier this month, citing wrongful eviction, slander and emotional distress against Weems-Dillon, but RadarOnline reports that the judge has dismissed the lawsuit.

"Deliberately causing harassment, alarm or distress is against everything they stand for," said Francis FitzGibbon, defending.

We loved Sam Simmons, whose cavalcade of random nonsense, Meanwhile, amounts to a frenetic defence against distress.

Various reasons for this stood out: anxiety about undermining the adoptive parents, fear of encountering unbearable pain in the children and, more generally, a systemic reliance on procedure as a defence against distress.

Top of his list is the Bach-Busoni Chaconne, which he first heard on a cassette tape as a child and which "acted like a force field" against distress.

Those who denounce unemployment insurance as an invitation to idleness in an economy where there are at least five job seekers for every available job are not just hardening their hearts against distress.