Sentence examples for troubled affairs from inspiring English sources

The counts of Périgord later played a part in the troubled affairs of Aquitaine, and, beginning in 1259, control of Périgord was disputed by the French and the English.

The court-appointed official who has been managing the troubled affairs of the Cypress Hills Cemetery will remain on the job despite attempts by state officials to remove him.

Alain Delon plays identical twins who are never seen together: the film begins with the weak one (who represents earlier directors) being rescued and dominated by a powerful woman (the cinema), who finally does away with him; it ends with the strong one (the New Wave), who finds the woman weakened and puts her troubled affairs in order.

A16 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Camden Agrees to Deal Providing a State Manager Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco and leaders in Camden, New Jersey's poorest city, agreed on the appointment of an outside manager with broad powers to direct the city's troubled affairs for 5 to 10 years.

The state attorney general's office asked a state judge yesterday to reconsider his decision to name a Manhattan lawyer as the general counsel for the Cypress Hills Cemetery just two months after he was fired from another position overseeing the cemetery's troubled affairs.

Mr. de Navarro was regularly reported to be involved in lawsuits and troubled business affairs, but in 1884 he filed plans for apartment complexes at 86th Street and Madison Avenue, and at 81st Street and Central Park West.

From this time a business letter from Amy Dudley survives, settling some debts of her husband's in his absence, "although I forgot to move my lord thereof before his departing, he being sore troubled with weighty affairs, and I not being altogether in quiet for his sudden departing".

Troubled about his affair, he develops gastritis.

Nevertheless the play implicitly argues that American involvement in the civil affairs of troubled nations is likely to end in tears (or worse) for everyone — but mostly the beleaguered locals.

After returning to the US, Steadman brews up his datura tea and, for all his blindness, can see, for example, that his friend President Clinton is troubled, perhaps having an affair with a pretty White House intern.

Constructed as a jigsaw puzzle spanning nearly two decades of Alvy's love life, it locks together scenes from his previous failed marriages with the story of his charming, then troubled, then death-spiraling affair with Annie.