Sentence examples for grave distress from inspiring English sources

Everything about the game was designed to inflame a teen-age boy's fantasies of power while causing grave distress to his parents.

On his 85th birthday, he remarked that he had been "overestimated," though, he added, "I will not pretend that this has been a source of grave distress".

Had C.I.A. officers watched the program when it was broadcast — and had seen such cost-cutting on a show that was meant to serve as a great national patriotic epic — they'd instantly have understood the Soviet economy to be in grave distress.

Do you really believe that if your mother was in grave distress and you left without helping her you would not continue to be troubled by the knowledge that she was still in distress?

A car appeared and inside was a man in grave distress.

The storyline is that we can and should identify people destined to have mental disorders early in their course -- before symptoms can cause grave distress or impairment.

The chain has been in grave economic distress for some time.

Through the combined efforts of the playwright, the actress (who keeps a harsh edge on the character) and Risa Bramon Garcia as the director, "Jenny Keeps Talking" rounds out a portrait of a character in grave emotional distress.

With the nation in grave economic distress, why are some Congressmen and Senators refusing to cut defense spending?

Trafficking exposes children to physical violence, sexual abuse, and grave emotional distress.

Certainly, a jury could have found on this record that Graves's distress resulting from his dysfunctional stomach caused him to ingest the baking soda, and that the absence of an adequate warning of possible stomach rupture was just one, albeit, a substantial factor, in contributing to that conduct.