Sentence examples for distressed to make from inspiring English sources

"The waters were very calm but we were going so fast, we were flying high," said Ehsanula Safi, his Afghan compatriot still too visibly distressed to make mention of his dead wife and four children.

Mr. Weintraub said the tape can be removed with solvents and preserved, allowing future curators to decide how the pictures ought to be reattached: with new tape, perhaps distressed to make it look old, or with the original tape, perhaps hiding thin magnets underneath.

On Tuesday, the consumer bureau sued Corinthian for allegedly misleading students into taking out unaffordable loans by falsely advertising job prospects, and using illegal debt collection tactics to force distressed students to make good on their payments.

A Laguna Niguel man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for stealing more than $900,000 from investors in a Ponzi scheme involving false promises to purchase, fix up and sell distressed homes to make a profit.

The idea with distressed debt was to make money from failure, not success".

In other instances, distressed homeowners try to make a short sale to a relative, who would then sell it back to them (a practice that is illegal).

So-called distressed sales continued to make up more than half the market for previously owned homes.

The fund is starting up at a time when cities and states remain under enormous financial pressure, offering what Fundamental and others view as new opportunities to make distressed investments.

"Still, as much as Energy Future Holdings may want to tie a reorganization into a neat little bow, some creditors, including seasoned hedge fund investors in distressed debt, are certain to make this a fight of junkyard dogs," Ms. Creswell writes.

The Obama administration's $75 billion plan to help distressed borrowers has yet to make a serious dent in stopping foreclosures.

The holdup may hamper distressed borrowers who want to make good on their debts, said consumer advocates, who added that borrowers may continue to be misled by the department's contracted debt collectors.