Sentence examples for distressing years from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Gardner said the boy's family had conducted themselves with "great dignity in the most distressing circumstances for many years".

"I am delighted to be leading the group that will carry out a rigorous randomised study of this intriguing new therapy with 142 people who have experienced distressing voices for many years.

The cognitive dissonance of placing an Asian woman onstage in a beauty queen role that would have been denied her in real life was compounded by the distressing fact that, three years prior, her Japanese father had been arrested and interned along with over 100,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor.

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