Sentence examples for public anguish from inspiring English sources

In Papua New Guinea, public anguish runs deep about the treatment of neighbouring West Papuans.

Some cried for fear that inadequate public anguish might damn them, and some from anxiety about what lay ahead.

The rape in December may have drawn great public anguish because it came to symbolize the collected grievances of hundreds of millions of women.

Mr. Jordan, a protégé of the indicted Democratic congressman William J. Jefferson and a quiet, usually bespectacled man with a taste for homburg hats who had previously served as the United States attorney here, could easily have been mistaken for a bystander to the storm of public anguish at which he was actually the center.

This latest defeat, his very obvious public anguish and red cards for Williamson and Daryl Janmaat will not make him sleep any easier.

It issued a short notice of sympathy and then refused to talk to the press, hoping, as has happened all too many times before, that public anguish and anger would fade as time passed.

But, as a guide to public policy, anguish is hardly better than bigotry.

The public's anguish for the fewer than 150 lost during that campaign was counterbalanced by the apparently easy victory and the visible signs of enemy capitulation.

And what about the damage to the morale of members of the American public who suffer anguish in knowing that torture was sanctioned by the higher authorities of their own government whose duty is the defense of American values?

Before Naveen came along, the baby-shaped hole in the Lohans' life was a source of public shame and anguish.

The public anger and anguish, much of it genuine, some of it cynical political manipulation, has become an election issue.