Sentence examples for distressing right from inspiring English sources

Like many, he believes the future of Pakistan is "incredibly distressing" right now, but he has reached this conclusion in his own way: when he and his students modeled its future last year, the power of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in that region grew quickly throughout 2009, far outstripping that of the government and military.

A refrain often heard here and across Russia is that the distressing years right after Communism's collapse left people craving stability and a sturdy economy far more than Western-style democracy.

Taken as a whole, our data do not support the view that left-sided head pain is more distressing than right-sided pain.

The Ugandan journalists and politicos I've been speaking to this month find the debate over gay rights distressing.

Unfortunately, one of the most distressing fads is happening right now.

The High Court hasn't heard a Second Amendment case in seven years, and in their opinion, the two justices called its treatment of the Second Amendment as a "disfavored right" "a distressing trend".

A dementia diagnosis is distressing in its own right, but when paired with the threat of losing one's independence, the issue of the living situation becomes problematic for both the person with dementia and his/her relatives [ 1].

Until then, deeply affected by the confusing and contradictory messages sent by the EU on human rights those distressing questions about the integrity of the EU policy on human rights will remain.

The pieces here, and the Abu Ghraib photographs, remind us of the general but no less distressing truth, that human rights abuses happen in all war zones, at all times, regardless of the nationalities of the adversaries.

In her opening statement, Nancy Feldman, the air district's lawyer, compared Exide's pollution control system to a vacuum cleaner that spews dust and debris from the carpet "out of the sides before it ever reaches the filters in the vacuum" and "more distressing...it actually spits dirt right out the front, back onto your carpet".

But just because when a speaker is describing something distressing she makes all the right sorts of soothing sounds ('Oh, how awful! You poor thing! You must have been so angry/afraid/upset/shocked/etc'), this doesn't prove she has good empathy.