Sentence examples for public distress from inspiring English sources

The riot caused such public distress that the military authorities held a public inquiry in the new national theater.

In most European countries, this is not a matter involving vast public distress or complaints about the administration's approach.

Photograph: BBC/Shine A society that revels in others' public distress or humiliation, filmed in intrusive close-up, is a pretty sick society.

His home subsequently became a refuge for Jews, while he strove to alleviate public distress and to restore the Austrian Church, disassociating himself from politics.

The goal seems to be to acknowledge both public distress over the war and concerns even among Republicans about the White House's competence without directly assailing Mr. Bush himself, a step that could still alienate the most loyal of the party's voters, those who tend to turn out in primaries.

The inquiry was always seen as a way of Brown differentiating himself from Blair, showing willingness to clean out the stables where Iraq remained an issue; but it was at least partly also responding to the very public distress of those who had lost loved ones in action.One wonders how much of that nuance got across in the ten minutes Sir John said he was given to decide whether to take the job.

Malaria is a public health distress in countries in which this disease is prevalent.

Kenya has had multiple arbovirus outbreaks in the past 2 decades resulting in economic and public health distress, including yellow fever in 1992 55, 6 ) and 1995 (7 ), chikungunya fever in 2004 (8 ), and Rift Valley fever (RVF) in 1997 (9 ) and 2006 (10 ).

In fact, you might already know Abort 67 as the group who parade graphic images of aborted foetuses through public places, "distressing and intimidating" the students of Sussex University and ruining everyone else's day as they go.

Public nature of distress and any special attention intensify rather than alleviate symptoms.

If we cannot shake the complacency of the powerful, satirists will be even more galvanized by the public's deep distress about the health of the economy, media, and democracy.