Sentence examples for distressing degree from inspiring English sources
To a distressing degree America has broken faith with its commitment to public higher education, and with those for whom it represents a way up.JEFFREY RIEDINGER SeattleFocused knowledgeThomas Aquinas's phrase "beware of the person of one book" was not an admonishment against "unscholarly types" ("Spotify for books", January 24th).
The story Alterman tells is in large part a familiar one, but worth restating given the strenuous — and to a distressing degree successful — campaign by conservatives to rewrite the entire history of liberalism, and indeed of America itself in the years before the Reagan "revolution," as one long love affair with central planning and welfare dependency.
For those who sometimes imagine that Latinos arrived in the United States in the 1950s, just in time to audition for "West Side Story," it is a particular revelation that Latino American history goes back quite a bit further and has been, to a distressing degree, Anglo-washed.
"The story Alterman tells is in large part a familiar one," Mr. Shesol writes, "but worth restating given the strenuous — and to a distressing degree successful — campaign by conservatives to rewrite the entire history of liberalism, and indeed of America itself in the years before the Reagan 'revolution,' as one long love affair with central planning and welfare dependency.
The panel stated that it found, "a distressing degree of inattention to the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence among many senior DoD military and civilian leaders".
The neck should be arched, but not to a distressing degree, unless it is performing a trick, where its neck must be curled between its legs or when the neck is thrown back.
"I think it's distressing the degree to which a new industry has been built around social impact bonds before it's ever been proven viable," said Mark Rosenman, a professor emeritus at Union Institute and University in Cincinnati.
Hot enough for ya? BIG MAMA: With the interior temperature holding steady at seventy-two degrees, I can handle distressing news with equanimity.
What is so distressing in all of this is the degree to which the Republicans have failed to learn the lessons of Bush's failures.
Depending on the degree of symptoms, FI can be a highly distressing and socially incapacitating problem.
Neuroticism, in psychology and development, a broad personality trait dimension representing the degree to which a person experiences the world as distressing, threatening, and unsafe.
