Sentence examples for distressing sign from inspiring English sources

Another distressing sign was the recent ouster of Mikko Fritze, the director of Tallinn's successful ECC bid, when rumours emerged he was paid more than Estonia's president.

The failure to hold a hearing is a distressing sign of how out of touch the current commission is with the public it serves.

But it was a distressing sign of how low the political debate has gotten this year that neither side could resist using the moment to hurl more mud.

The notion that the impoverished Andean nation could leapfrog past America in electoral professionalism in a few months is a distressing sign of how invested our political parties are in the status quo.

On one level, this is a distressing sign of the Americanisation of public debate in the UK – much as social security has been rebranded as "welfare", and hence transformed from a right to a charity, so we find a weirdly expanded definition of "communism".

The fact that acquired founders are ditching Yahoo before their two-year cliff is a distressing sign for how Mayer's product culture is shaping up.

But there are distressing signs.

For there are distressing signs of Arsenal's falling apart, more than at any other time in the Frenchman's 15 years as its manager and coach.

And although these figures show an improvement from a few years ago, there were distressing signs of an increase in people sleeping rough by other homeless charities earlier this year.

Ms. Pellegrino of Fairfield has also noticed distressing signs at the secondary level: "I have heard from students, counselors and teachers that heightened levels of anxiety are at the point of being destructive in the high school environment.

The nation has made great strides on the racial front in recent decades, but it is showing some distressing signs of weariness from the progress, and a resistance to march onward.