Sentence examples for while appalling from inspiring English sources

While appalling, it wasn't clear whether the practice was also fraud.

The arrogance and contempt for young women which have been displayed, while appalling, cannot form the basis for criminal charges".

Criminal actions by armed opposition members, while appalling, are minuscule compared to the systematic criminal repression of the regime ….

The details outlined in the charges, while appalling, are not uncommon.

And now you wonder, without any apparent irony, whose life you should go and ruin for a month while this appalling self-made cock-up blows over.

This selective history stays just shy of sentimental overkill: British abuses during the famine are vividly described, while the appalling excesses of the New York Draft Riots in 1863 are glossed over.

Council member Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn, chairman of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, called the Croman charges "a bittersweet victory" because the alleged abuses in this case, while spectacularly appalling, are common across the city.

That Mrs Brown pulled off such a feat while attracting universally appalling reviews compounds the achievement.

On his way out the door for a four-week sabbatical, Scott labeled the effort "disgusting" and "appalling", while stand-in coach Darren Crocker promised to follow through on plans to swing the axe.

While Brazil and Argentina suffered appalling hyperinflation in the 1980s and 1990s, he said the current situation in Venezuela was harsher because – unlike in those two countries – wages are not index linked, so people are experiencing a devastating collapse in their ability to pay for goods.

US secretary of state John Kerry said it was "chilling and draconian", British prime minister David Cameron condemned the verdict as "completely appalling" while Australia's foreign minister, Julie Bishop – whose fellow countryman, Peter Greste, was one of those convicted – said that the "Australian government simply cannot understand it based on the evidence that was presented in the case".