Sentence examples for distressing fall from inspiring English sources
That comes at the end of a distressing fall for workers at U.S.-based banks: In November Citibank announced it planned to lay off 3,000 workers; Bank of America has started trimming a planned 30,000 workers; and Goldman Sachs said earlier this year it would lay off around 1,000 workers.
The first MRI scan was the most distressing: the number of women reporting distress fell in subsequent years.
The distressing fact about Thursday's fall is it left Hartford's market capitalization at $2.9 billion, little more than the Allianz's investment.
Last year, J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Arlie Russell Hochschild's "Strangers in Their Own Land" painted distressing portraits of fallen Rust Belt towns in Ohio, Kentucky, and Louisiana.
"It was very distressing to see Jerry fall apart.
The fact that it deals with such distressing subject matter without falling prey to sentimentality makes it all the more admirable.
As pointed out by Cullen Murphy, that city's infamous decline and fall bears a distressing similarity to the privatization, coarsened discourse and elite-driven political establishment that characterizes contemporary America.
Thursday's news that Bengals receiver Chris Henry died after falling from a pickup truck during a domestic dispute falls on a distressing pile of stories, ranging from the equally tragic death of the former quarterback Steve McNair to the metaphorical demise of the Tiger Woods we thought we knew.
For there are distressing signs of Arsenal's falling apart, more than at any other time in the Frenchman's 15 years as its manager and coach.
He found this period of time extremely traumatic and distressing, and described how things fell apart for him.
He said the e-mail messages "that have come to light are very distressing and disappointing to us; they fall far short of our professional standards".
