Sentence examples for distressing process from inspiring English sources

So she is trapped in a life - more accurately, in a distressing process of dying - that she does not want.

He went though radiotherapy and other treatments – a long, painful and distressing process – and at one stage it looked like he would pull through.

In the late 1920's, Representative John C. Box of Texas warned his colleagues on the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee that the continued influx of Mexican immigrants could lead to the "distressing process of mongrelization" in America.

We, as teachers, educators, parents and grandparents, are writing out of huge concern for the deteriorating experience of children in England's primary schools – and the part played by assessment models in this distressing process.

Starting to use a powerchair is a difficult and distressing process, so having to spend time and effort on fundraising for it is emotionally difficult for me, but even if I were in a position to do so, it would still take months.

Renishaw's founder and chief executive, Sir David McMurtry, said redundancy was a "distressing process for everyone involved" but that earlier attempts at combating the recession, including pay cuts and a four-day week at the Wotton-under-Edge plant, had not been enough to avoid redundancies.

For grief treatment to be effective, it is important that techniques are grounded within an information processing framework that targets the way distressing information is processed, to prevent people developing maladaptive coping processes (eg, rumination and worry).

Second lesson learned: part of what is confusing and distressing about this process is that health-insurance companies don't seem equipped, or maybe willing, to explain the implications of the new law to consumers.

Once in London, Keita too found the asylum process distressing.

Building on previous findings questioning the validity of debriefing interventions (e.g. Tuckey, 2007), our results indicate that it may not be necessary to 'emote' to adequately process distressing material.

Focusing on those who received a negative biopsy result, it revealed that the majority of men who undergo testing are not significantly adversely affected, although some men do find the process distressing.