"distressing result" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used whenever there is a negative or unfortunate outcome to a situation. For example: - The experiment had a distressing result, as all the test subjects experienced severe side effects. - The company's decision to downsize had a distressing result for the employees who lost their jobs. - The team's loss in the final game was a distressing result after all their hard work and training.
The distressing result of losing a landmark like the depot is irrevocable damage to the historic fabric of New York State and a huge loss to a sustainable tourist industry.
José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger did mention Liverpool, but only fleetingly – and that is probably fair enough when nobody at Anfield seems to think it plausible either and, ultimately, we all know another distressing result for Brendan Rodgers at Stoke on Sunday would put the bloodhounds back on his scent.
In Conclusions we discuss some reasons for this seemingly distressing result.
They love their team, but they are accustomed to the same distressing results that their fathers and their father's fathers endured.
Under extreme circumstances, the effects of histamine become pathological, leading to exaggerated responses with distressing results, as may occur in some allergic conditions.
He also hurled water balloons at cars stopped at the red light below, and "I hate to admit this," he said, "but I would scare the birds up here, with distressing results for the windshields" of cars on the street.
A stripped-down tale of revenge with bloodied hands and a blackened heart, this viscerally intelligent thriller takes a new stab at an old genre with refreshingly distressing results.
When a group of male doctors was recently asked to talk about patients who had taken control of their own medical care, with distressing results, the stories they told were invariably about men.
But for those pulled aside for a secondary inspection (about 35,000 travelers a day), the experience can be distressing, resulting in a missed connecting flight, a prolonged interrogation, and in Mr. House's case, the loss of a laptop necessary for his livelihood.
It tells three stories in which the internet brings people into contact with one another with sometimes distressing results.
The distressing results clouded the prospects for the Sept. 24 FDA hearing on Iressa, even though the proceeding was to be based only on the better results in the two earlier and much smaller trials.
