Sentence examples for distressing today from inspiring English sources

Difficult and distressing today, Thailand's national soul-searching will only grow harder.

The soundtrack to my life during the quiet, sometimes distressing second half of that year was the seven songs of the introspective Brilliant Trees.

Since I just gave Larry Summers a bit of a hard time over that distressing Dec. 2008 memo to Obama, this is probably a good time to note that way back when he and Andrei Shleifer wrote an essay on the economics of leveraged buyouts (pdf) that is very worth reading now that Mitt Romney is running on the theme that his Bain experience means that he knows how to create jobs.

Low levels of self-reported distress were reported for both procedures (MRI, 13.5% and XRM, 7.8%), although MRI was more distressing (P=0.005).

For example, improvements in depressive symptoms may cause an increase in appetite and unhealthy eating, while active monitoring of physical symptoms may itself be distressing (11).

Approximately 75 80% of women experience menopausal symptoms, almost half of whom find the symptoms distressing, while 20 30% have severe symptoms [ 2, 3].

The increase in tourist numbers has had a beneficial effect on the disease and poverty that was so distressing in 1976.

Even with the extension, the law stands little chance of surviving a court challenge, but it is distressing in 2013 that a woman's right to make her own childbearing decisions is under such aggressive attack by far-right lawmakers.

Problems reported have been poor communication; discordance about treatment plans and goals; high prevalence of pain and distressing symptoms [16 19].

To find out at this stage that the enzyme is grown in bacteria that are exposed to cow brain is really distressing (Sinnema 2007).

It's not clear from these experiments how long these distressing effects last.