Sentence examples for distressing step from inspiring English sources

This would be a distressing step backward for the city and the 650,000 travelers who use the station each day.

For Afghans who see the local police as potentially uncontrollable, the strategy represents a distressing step backward, not toward the Musahibans but the chaos that came later, during the anarchic '90s, when warlords and militias terrorized the country.

A makeover specialist — first by necessity, then by profession — Ms. Blair describes, in step-by-step detail, 26 restoration techniques, like distressing and making small repairs.

Are the effects of certain forms of speech so distressing and potentially dangerous that we should take steps to curtail them?

A quality-of-life assessment can be used to decide when to go to the next therapeutic step, or to alter treatment to minimize distressing side effects.

The following steps can help reduce the risk of distressing the essential balance of bacteria in the vagina and developing BV: Be abstinent.

Rockets still blow up with distressing frequency and, although machines may have made a small step towards the planets, the idea of humans following them there still looks like a dangerously giant leap.

The new drugs are a step towards that, and should make living with the disease less distressing.

The renovation project will also involve closing the entrance to the Court at the top of its iconic front steps — a change that is said to be a security measure but that several Justices regard as a distressing symbol.

For example, monitoring people with dementia using commercially available devices that measure heart rate, breathing rate, lung volume, step count, and activity level could be used to predict episodic behavioral and psychological symptoms before they become distressing or disruptive.

And a distressing solipsism..