Sentence examples for distressing rate from inspiring English sources

Black Lives Matter doesn't mean white lives don't matter, but it does mean black lives are being taken down at a distressing rate.

In the state of Rajasthan, groundwater reserves are disappearing at a distressing pace as water has been pumped out at a far more rapid rate than can be replenished.

Participants were then asked to dwell on their memory and rate how distressing the memory was (scale described below).

Respondents are asked to consider each problem and to rate how distressing that problem has been on a scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely).

The prospect of paying higher postage rates is distressing to many magazines at a time when they are still trying to stabilize their businesses.

MIAMI — Sharp increases in federal flood insurance rates are distressing coastal homeowners from Hawaii to New England and are starting to hurt property values and housing sales in areas just beginning to recover from the recession, according to residents and legislators.

Even more distressing, she said, the attendance rate fell to 66percentt, from nearly 85percentt, in the same period, as the number of students who were considered "long-term absences" ballooned to more than 500, up from fewer than 100 in 2002.

The social and health demographics of the county are also extremely distressing, with a low literacy rate (UNESCO estimates female adult literacy to border around 40% in 2006[ 3]) combined with a burgeoning population growth rate.

Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said: "These distressing figures reveal bed occupancy rates are at the very limit of what is safe or indeed desirable for patients.

Of the 19 side-effects, only one was significant: neuropathy was present in 38.2% and rated significantly more distressing in the 3-weekly group (χ2 = 7.205, p = 0.008).

Paired t-tests comparing how currently concerning, distressing and personally relevant participants rated the two worries revealed no significant differences on any of these (for all: t < 1, ns).