Sentence examples for long distressing from inspiring English sources

Even with its auto industry in relatively robust, post-bailout health, Detroit has been on a long, distressing slide.

Before long, distressing word spread from Ripton to Middlebury and beyond that the preserved farmhouse once owned by Robert Frost had been vandalized — desecrated, some said.

If you become mentally incapacitated later in life and don't have an LPA in place, your relatives can face long, distressing delays and expense in applying to the court to take control.

Federal regulators have a long and distressing history of talking about predatory banking practices while doing little to end them.

Her death on March 15 after a long and distressing illness seemed to knock the remaining fight out of him.

This season should be about spending quality time with friends and family, but thousands could be facing a long and distressing wait for their cancer diagnosis and treatment," said Dr Moira Fraser, Macmillan Cancer Support's director of policy and public affairs.

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

(R41, UK Another respondent emphasized that: 'it has been a very long and distressing journey of over 8 years, and I look back on it as a time of waiting waiting for appointments with clinics, waiting to hear the answer from their ethics committee, waiting for a friend to say yes [to donating his sperm], waiting for ovulation, waiting for a period, waiting… ' (R8, Australia).

Was he single-manning?" The suggestion that Iacovou had lain undiscovered for so long was especially distressing to people.

He went though radiotherapy and other treatments – a long, painful and distressing process – and at one stage it looked like he would pull through.

Disturbed by a long succession of distressing scenes, an American lady who had been several weeks resident there called up the local mayor and endeavored through several explanations to make him understand about prevention of cruelty to animals.