Sentence examples for were dismayed when from inspiring English sources

TRADE negotiators were dismayed when in July India scuppered a chance to make modest progress on a global trade deal.

Brazilian officials were dismayed when Don Evans, Mr Bush's choice for secretary of commerce, gave a swift promise to defend steel makers against "unfair competition".

Many doctors and some Village residents were dismayed when St . Vincents went bankrupt and closed, and consider the new health care choices in the area to be less than adequate.

He's articulate and aware, the son of middle-class parents who raised him in San Antonio, Texas, to be something and were dismayed when, at 14, he quit school and hit the road for Nashville.

At the first meeting of his top campaign donors last year, some black donors were dismayed when officials handed out cards with talking points on the administration's achievements for various groups — women, Jews, gays and lesbians — and there was no card for African-Americans.

The source added, "Like all supermodels, she is high-maintenance and likes to be treated like a princess....Some members of Peter's family were not too fond of her, and were dismayed when she appeared around last Thanksgiving with a large diamond ring on her finger.

She is dismayed when Howdy invites the gardener's daughter for dinner.

It's no wonder that so many of us are dismayed when we receive our quarterly energy bill.

As a veteran public-school teacher, I am dismayed when people with no training in education claim that they know best how schools should run.

Mr.Wiedenhöfer worked in Northern Ireland in the 1990s,and was dismayed, when he returned to Belfast in 2008, to see construction of what are called "peace lines" stretching over 34 kilometers.

Conversely, I am dismayed when I hear that there are still people in charge of the Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall who still haven't woken up to the fact that these are buildings that are worth cherishing rather than destroying.