Sentence examples for distressing year from inspiring English sources

COLE: Perhaps more than anyone else I know, you've been involved in several of the most distressing stories of what has proved to be a very distressing year.

Better yet, at least a few of the spots I visited this year were blessedly calm shelters during an unpredictable and distressing year.

Jockey Martin Dwyer is looking to put a distressing year behind him today when he will ask a disciplinary hearing at the British Horseracing Authority for the 56-day ban imposed on him in India not to be applied in this country.

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.

I'm pretty sure it's a habit leftover from those particularly distressing years.

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

Gross et al. (1999), and Belle et al. (1997) reported that, although the intensity of fatigue was reduced after LTx, fatigue remained the most distressing symptom 1 year after surgery.

Left untreated, most women will have spontaneous cessation of hot flashes within 5 years, although some women continue to experience distressing symptoms for 30 years or more.

The debate over the availability of drugs that extend life among patients with terminal cancer throws what Nice calls Qaly (quality adjusted life year) into distressing relief.

The devastation of the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa has been one of the most shocking and distressing stories of the year.

It was so distressing that the 27-year-old Nepali lost his hair.