Sentence examples for distressing if from inspiring English sources

This can be especially distressing if technical standards change.

But it can be even more distressing if you discover in the process that you have missed out on tax reliefs and allowances.

This might not have been so distressing if it had not forced me to read the tracts and leaflets myself, for they were indeed, unless one believed their message already, impossible to believe.

Lord Dunedin, remarking that it would be impossible to find Mrs. Cameron innocent and her husband guilty, said it would be most distressing if they had to bring in a verdict of guilty against a most promising and talented officer and his young wife, who was little better than a girl, but they must remember their duty.

Perhaps the most distressing, if not entirely accurate, measure of the respective speeds at which they have progressed is that when they first met at the 2007 Australian Open they engaged in an absorbing contest that the Spanish left-hander won in the fifth set.

"It would really be distressing if the culture of The Los Angeles Times, even with its recent lapses, were hit by more attempts to make it efficient; if they were going to make the Times reporters cooperate with other newspapers and television stations in the name of the corporate glory of the parent," Professor Drummond said.

This can be highly distressing, particularly if they weren't drinking coffee at the time.

This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

To lose the trappings and status of high office can be deeply distressing, even if you were once just the First Dog.

On the other hand, she admits she sometimes suppresses some of the most distressing information if a spirit communicates with her about the details of a difficult passing.

Some readers have found this attitude not merely perplexing but distressing, as if Housman were using his professional skills to deny himself the pleasures of the text — as if to admit that you were moved by Propertius, say, were somehow to admit failure.