Sentence examples for what distressed from inspiring English sources

But what distressed me most was that, since we launched the inquiry, the number of Koori children in out-of-home care in Victoria has doubled.

What distressed her may have been evidence, as early as 1824, in his watercolors of tigers attacking horses, of a violent irrational urge quite at odds with the polite patrician facade presented to the world.

He told the court he was just repeating what distressed officers had told him in the hours after the disaster.

The Monk of St Denis wrote in his chronicle, "What distressed her above all was to see how on all occasions ... the king repulsed her, whispering to his people, 'Who is this woman obstructing my view?

What distressed me most about Robert's quick question was that he was willing to put his entire life in the balance over the definition of one word that appears twice in the whole of scripture.

He came to believe that what distressed the country was not his war policy but his personal style; he began to entertain the notion that a campaign to improve his public image would recapture his lost support.

What's distressed about the transaction is the fatigue of the underlying investor.

I will think of my misbehaving child as "distressed" not "bad" and try to understand what she is distressed about.

Or at least, you're buying into the liberal idea of what supporting a distressed economy means.

Or how about an edit of what Meek's distressed reaction might have been when he first heard Back to Back?

Henry Green Fair Haven, N.J., Nov. 13, 2008 The writer is former chairman of the mathematics department at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J. • To the Editor: What does our distressed public school system have in common with our devastated auto industry?