How To Use Distressed In A Sentence
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And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
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The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
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After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind.
American Notes for General Circulation
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Mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors.
The Sun
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But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot.
Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
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The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
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She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
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The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
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Data on the number of charities with distressed reserve funds are hard to come by, but insurance consultants report an increased number of groups seeking to "reinsure" their obligations with outside firms.
Donors Find
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The manager was distressed by excessive work.
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He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today.
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Inwardly as distressed as the Thienz, Scait strode from the hall without pause to call a lackey to replace the rent limb of his throne arm.
Shadowfane
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When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state.
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Pensioner Anthony Tanner was left highly distressed after a vandal tried to set his house on fire with a burning newspaper.
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Take the case of a deal between a special servicer and the owner of a pair of distressed three-story suburban office buildings on Long Island, N.Y., known as the Fountains at Lake Success.
Loan Wrangling on the Rise
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I too am distressed at the construction of a bund to prevent the long-standing annual visits by Romany families to an Ilkley riverside location.
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With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet.
Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
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With the speed of an eagle, Hamish darted up the acclivity, and stood by the minister of Glenorquhy, who was pacing out thus early to administer consolation to a distressed family near Bunawe.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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“Troth, I’ll pledge naebody the night, Maister Touchwood; for, what wi’ the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi’ the bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already. —
Saint Ronan's Well
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As noted in my new medicinal spice book, ginger, cinnamon, hot pepper and turmeric are just a few of the spices that can settle a distressed stomach.
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How much distressed he must have been.
The Daisy Chain
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Jamal and I stand on the distressed street waiting for a jitney.
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Until yesterday, this was a quiet place, even while the people on either side were clearly distressed by a new and awkward tension.
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There was no note or indication he was feeling down or distressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sold about $350 million in delinquent loans and distressed properties in a bulk sale during the last quarter.
Regions Financial Loss Narrows
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I have been known to wear some pretty distressed stuff at times, since after all that is one current style.
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Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.
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Finally, drive the car over them until they attain the distressed patina of wear and tear that is essential to your shooting-party credentials.
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She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience.
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The referral letter described the marital relationship as extremely distressed, with Andrea thinking of leaving her husband.
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I remember when I was really distressed my frown lines were deep from crying.
Times, Sunday Times
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The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’.
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Being with Lydie when she was so weak and helpless caused Jamie to become distressed.
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A wide variety was on show with items such as long colourful floaty dresses and tops, tailored coats, funky knitwear and distressed jackets - all of which I have no doubt will be best sellers.
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In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any movement or utter a cry, you are a dead man.’”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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Surrounding each image is a hand-painted, distressed border with decorative accents.
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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The news of my mother's death distressed me greatly.
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And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
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Christ may sleep when his church is in a storm, but he will not outsleep himself: the time, the set time to favour his distressed church, will come, Ps. cii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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So Ng Yen Yen, please convey to Todt that I am 'affronted' and 'distressed' that somehow money is involved when he supposedly took the position voluntarily.
Malaysiakini :: News
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
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Often, this does not help the originally distressed community if high-end homes are built, a process called gentrification, and no provisions are made for prior neighborhood residents.
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The news of my mother's death distressed me greatly.
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[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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In many cases police reported that they were attempting to stop distressed people committing suicide.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to inflicting grave injustices on property owners, takings that transfer property to powerful private interests are not needed to rescue distressed urban areas.
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The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
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Barbara declared afterwards, was magnificent, and plodded her way through bread sponges flavoured with soup, assuring the distressed cook that it was really quite remarkable "potage," and that she had never tasted anything like it before -- all of which, of course, was perfectly true.
Barbara in Brittany
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Northern legends represent Buddha as having "incarnated" for the purpose of bringing relief to a distressed world.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
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As they talked together, I was distressed to hear them recounting episodes of racial strife that they had seen.
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His name on her lips sounded so distressed and pained.
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Manchester A mother was confused and distressed when a rare form of amnesia caused her suddenly to forget 16 years of her life.
Times, Sunday Times
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he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
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I have been extremely distressed by the religious and ethnic violence that is widespread in certain parts of Indonesia and am chagrined that the government has not seen fit to protect innocent Indonesian citizens from that violence.
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Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don
Don Quixote
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He even threw in a Rebel without a Cause moment with his olive suede four-pocket jacket paired with a distressed leather pant.
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The distressed surfaces, with their flinty earth tones, cobalt blues and nacreous whites, hold light like rough alabaster.
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Deeply distressed, the manager sprang to his feet and asked what was the matter, then getting no answer climbed up on the seat and caressed him, cheek to cheek, so that his own face was bedabbled by the trapeze artist's tears.
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Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.
The Talisman
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The award-winning sculptor of found footage has become a contemporary ambassador of the technique largely thanks to his 2002 film "Decasia," which literalized its title by turning physically distressed footage into quicksilver sequences of eerie beauty.
A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning
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The secretary kept her voice gentle and calm, attempting to soothe the distressed mother.
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I knew it was rude and impolite but I was too distressed to be thinking of manners.
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In Hong Kong, distressed relatives of passengers and other loved ones gathered in the airport to await news.
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But the Bruins seemed to accept their plight, rather than challenge it, and that may have most distressed Harrick.
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Where are the cries, the distressed gulls wheeling, the fiery orange light?
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he heard Xena's voice call his name, she sounded distressed and in pain.
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Rooms are stark white with flashes of blue, and distressed furniture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Furthermore the King sighted in that hut a lady of exquisite beauty and comeliness sitting in a corner direly distressed: her hands were fast bound with cords, and at her feet a child of two or three years of age lay beweeping his mother's sorry plight.
Arabian nights. English
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If you find my use of a blog name 'distressful', then you're just too easily distressed.
RealClimate
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I'm thinking of hiring myself out as a service to distressed parents everywhere.
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It distressed us to be cataloguing the last mortal remains of so many species that are on the verge of extinction, or have gone forever.
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I have heard stories of kids having what they call psychotic breakdowns in kindergarten, kids who are distressed because they are 'kindergarten failures' because they can't read and they can't write," she says.
Boston.com Top Stories
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Nearly all bidders are investors that specialise in turning around distressed companies.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a scarlet dining-room, with distressed metal walls, a Chinese emperor's daybed for lounging about on, and a fabulous collection of primitive art and antiques.
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People with binge eating disorder are extremely distressed by their binge eating.
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And I just saw him looking very distressed before they forced him into his seat, and put a blindfold on him and covered his handcuffs with a blanket.
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If Micko goes the players will be extremely distressed.
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When a regular flight en route from Tehran to Yerevan crashed after takeoff yesterday, killing all 168 on board, many in Armenia and its Diaspora were distressed, and not least since there were 40 ethnic Armenians among the dead.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Armenian bloggers on plane crash
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The dream had distressed her greatly.
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The family were deeply distressed about it and had no idea how to tackle the situation.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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He also notes how distressed he was when the band morphed from being "bluesmen" into "some [expletive] ersatz Beatles," with the music being drowned out by the screaming crowds of teenaged girls.
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Federal disinvestment posed a serious dilemma for distressed cities.
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Murillo is well known for his sympathy with his neighbours, the poor and distressed of Seville.
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Never was he distressed but smiled with a grin fixed to his face without changing, depicting his life.
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Her head buried in her lap, one distressed victim is given a reassuring hug from a concerned friend.
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He seemed distressed and anxious but refused an offer to speak to someone else.
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There are certainly going to be opportunities to buy distressed assets.
Times, Sunday Times
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This one is dark olive leather, a little bit distressed and oversized.
The Sun
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The distressed and dishevelled schoolgirl was found whimpering in the garden by the owner of the bungalow.
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(Tb) Jones feels distressed when he thinks of what he will undergo if he goes to hospital.
Analysis
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I confess that, by that point, I was too distressed to listen to the fourth talk at all.
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Yesterday he had seen, for the first time, the angry and distressed faces of the people he was meant to rule.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
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He spoke out after two frail and elderly patients were left alone and distressed waiting hours for ambulances to take them home after their wives were barred from travelling with them.
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The tragic news distressed us all.
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Michelle was deeply distressed by Adam's news and she felt tears forming quickly in her eyes.
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I call the illiquid securities "cash for trash" because the Fed has given treasury bills or cash in exchange for these distressed mortgage backed securities.
US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
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It has undoubtedly distressed and upset many.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the distressed look in furniture showed up, frames followed suit, she said.
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Only two weeks after writing this post, I am still distressed by the news from London.
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Mpofu said the growth of Bulawayo and the current economic situation have strained resources to cope with distressed calls.
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In many cases police reported that they were attempting to stop distressed people committing suicide.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fabric: Jersey, dupion, georgette and fine velvets embraced techniques ranging from distressed foils, digital printing, appliqué, laser cutting.
The Times of India
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He said he was in favor of some sort of "affirmative help" for distressed farmers.
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One managed to clamber back home in a very distressed state, suffering a fractured pelvis, cuts and severe shock.
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Not to mention dark wash, light wash, stonewash, regular wash, and distressed.
Lindsay Mannering: So Out, They're In: Mom Jeans
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First, while in Gujarat, I met many individuals who remain anonymous, who were so distressed by what had happened that they worked tirelessly round the clock to help provide succour.
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Almost immediately two of the jurors began to cry and were left obviously distressed by what they were asked to study.
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Graphic designer Paul Thurlby brings a distressed retro-modern sensibility to capital letters with "Paul Thurlby's Alphabet" Templar, 64 pages, $16.99 , a stylish take on the traditional abecedarian primer.
Tales of Snow and Blue Horses
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The distressed bird was eventually cornered by one of the security officers, who used his cap to gather it into custody.
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They include distressed debt, activist investing, lending, and buy - outs.
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The office had received several calls from distressed farmers about possible mitigating measures.
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By the time he finally dropped me off at the picnic, I had missed cocktails (well, not that I would have had one anyway) and felt slightly carsick and distressed.
Finding a Great Recipe while Lost in Harlem «
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When she tested it, she was distressed to see that those whom she sought were on her bed, not at camp.
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Or jeans 'chemically distressed in ways that suggested baroquely improbable patterns of wear'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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From Abercrombie & Fitch, these belts are made from distressed leather with solid brass buckles for superior styling.
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Hannah was deeply distressed by the news.
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What if we designed products to get better during transport and handling, the way distressed leather and sandblasted jeans do?
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Aiming to minimize his risk, he called a handful of funds to find how many bonds in their portfolios were considered "distressed," with yields 10 percentage points above Treasurys.
High-Yield Bonds Are Popular
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If you meet a fatigued and distressed junior doctor in the next few weeks it is more than likely that much of their duress was entirely avoidable.
Times, Sunday Times
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If thou speakest improper things in the hearing of this virtuous young virgin, consider it as an outrage against a distressed person that cannot get from thee: To speak indiscreetly what we are obliged to hear, by being hasped up with thee in this public vehicle, is in some degree assaulting on the high road. '
The Coverley Papers
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But by that night she was becoming increasingly distressed.
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Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her.
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He remained silent and she watched his face; he looked so pained and distressed - completely emotionally drained.
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Give furniture a rustic look by finishing it in a distressed, aged way.
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Where on that spectrum the price should locate is not yet an area of agreement between Alberta and Ontario, but I am confident the two provinces would agree it cannot be at the highest price any distressed buyer abroad might be prepared to pay.
Energy and Government
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Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses.
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Often my children are woken up and are extremely distressed.
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She was distressed and had to be given several drinks of water.
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There's a tendency sometimes to paper over the emotional cracks, to smooth the corners and prettify them, to paint over the distressed finish… and that's a big mistake.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
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But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed to him a certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble mien, and in Christian sympathy more distressed at it on his account than on his own, dimly surmising what might be the final fate of such a cynic solitaire, nor perhaps uninfluenced by the general strangeness of surrounding things, this good magistrate had glanced sadly, sideways from the speaker, and thereupon his foreboding eye had started at the expression of the unchanging face of the Hour Una.
The Piazza Tales
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
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In this photo on the left, we see a modern easy chair covered with distressed plum leather.
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When he failed to come for a second time, "the little invalid was much distressed by it '.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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Potential suitors have included distressed debt and equity funds as well as trade buyers and wholesalers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people. Dr T.P.Chia
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This new version of denim is the opposite of distressed; it's box-fresh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark Issacs, a board member of Interfaith Paths to Peace and founder of a local coalition dedicated to a peaceful resolution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, said he believed in the right to bear arms, but was distressed at the notion of churchgoers packing heat.
Undefined
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Those who have always good hope in the midst of misfortunes, and who are delighted with good luck, are suspected of being very pleased with the ill success of the affair, if they are not equally distressed by bad luck.
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Photographs taken at the time showed her with her eyes shut and looking distressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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His eyes were tearing, and she could see a wrecked, distressed look in them and could tell he wanted nothing more to do with this.
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Tamara was usually a resolute soldier, a calm and imperturbable Warrior of God, but now she seemed distressed.
The Omega Theory
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Jeanne is extremely distressed by the revelation in the Minister's office.
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Permalink: Windows 7 Beta Drivers for Microsoft Hardware See all of FM Tech New York hails pilot who landed jetliner on river - NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York feted its latest hero, the pilot who landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River, saving all 155 on board in what experts called a masterful job under life-or-death pressure.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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They looked really distressed and scared.
The Sun
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A group of commercial real-estate heavyweights that made a big play on the distressed market earlier this year by buying into LNR Property Corp. has now tapped two executives who helped run Deutsche Bank AG's highflying commercial-property business, according to people familiar with the matter.
LNR Taps Vets of Deutsche Bank
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By this time, conscious patients were not acutely distressed, although some were anxious or scared.
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He suddenly looked extremely distressed and rubbed his forehead with his fingertips.
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Most of these were distressed institutions put up for sale as part of a systemwide restructuring.
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But this is supposed to be the big, golden-era throwback drama to remind us that TV can be about more than singing competitions featuring twerps in daft haircuts and distressed jeans.
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Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people. Dr T.P.Chia
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I am already upset and quite distressed enough without this.
The Sun
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But possibly the managers of the city's credit at that time made more conscience of breaking in upon the orphan's money to show charity to the distressed citizens than the managers in the following years did to beautify the city and re-edify the buildings; though, in the first case, the losers would have thought their fortunes better bestowed, and the public faith of the city have been less subjected to scandal and reproach.
A Journal Of The Plague Year
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Where are the cries, the distressed gulls wheeling, the fiery orange light?
Times, Sunday Times
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The news of his death distressed us greatly.
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Parents are distressed because she recently released a music video for "Who Owns My Heart" in which she is dressed skimpily, made up heavily and, at a certain point, dancing enthusiastically -- but not vulgarly -- in a crowded nightclub.
Miley Cyrus's brazen video not as bad as moves on 'Dancing With the Stars'
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She looked distressed and said she had an awful nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
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She tried to tear my veil from my face, and her questions distressed me.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it is seen as the useful quality of a master bricklayer, then you will not be distressed'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Lt. Col. Patterson said he was distressed at the news.
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Murillo is well known for his sympathy with his neighbours, the poor and distressed of Seville.
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I remember when I was really distressed my frown lines were deep from crying.
Times, Sunday Times
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chack" two or three times repeated, then subdued barks like those of a distressed puppy, followed by hoarse "mews" and other sounds suggesting almost any creature rather than one in feathers.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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The actors tear away parts of their costumes, transforming the look into distressed steampunk.
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As a resident of Alastrean House in Aberdeenshire, I am distressed by the recent news that the house is threatened with closure.
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The biggest laugh in the evening probably went to the distressed psychiatrist who claimed his auditory hallucinations took the form of the voice of the health secretary permanently emanating from his own fundament.
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The shepherds and shepherdesses, distressed with the cold, sought Krishna for refuge.
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Had he gone after oorial he would have taken his rifle and would have been accompanied by the shikari, "said the Doctor, who was greatly distressed about his son's disappearance.
Adventures in Many Lands
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In one window, a distressed officer sits at a sturdy acacia desk, scrawling a final correspondence of some illiterate contadino killed weeks before on an accursed massif.
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In another, she mingles with East Village punks in pink-and-orange hair, distressed biker jacket, shredded tights, and sleep-deprived eyes.
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-- When an Irish gentleman, like Sir Kit Rackrent, has lived beyond his income, and finds himself distressed for ready money, tenants obligingly offer to take his land at a rent far below the value, and to pay him a small sum of money in hand, which they call fining down the yearly rent.
Castle Rackrent
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Unlike doctors, they cannot easily withdraw when patients are distressed and in pain.
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At retail, distressed denim or dark denim are selling well, as are very bleached out denims and colored denims.
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I spent about 30 seconds trying to feel distressed but abandoned the attempt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Homer's palette and the broad swatches of unmodulated paint also distressed the critics.
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I noticed a little crimson rosella hopping around on a crossing, looking quite distressed.
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Our photographer was dispatched to get a picture of the distressed bird lover, but on the way back, what should he see but 30 ducks waddling towards him.
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And dear god, when can we finally retire the term grunge for anything that's worn or distressed looking?
Netvouz - new bookmarks
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A student spotted the pistol in his clothes, and several distressed students needed counselling afterwards.
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In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country.
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Dyn was distressed, for he could not spare any of his food so early in his journey.
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The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I feel sorrow for all the veterans who were extremely distressed by this act,’ he said.
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First, while in Gujarat, I met many individuals who remain anonymous, who were so distressed by what had happened that they worked tirelessly round the clock to help provide succour.
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As the larger yachts and cruisers burbled into harbour it gave the added fascination of playing spot the millionaire; but everyone here dressed down and ‘distressed casual’ was definitely the look.
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Some investors say distressed assets can be viable if the ambit is widened.
Distressed Asset Funds Find Little Traction
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This echoes the long-established yen for "antiqued" furniture or "distressed" jeans: imperfection implies character, imposed by artificial means.
NYT > Technology
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His persons, however distressed, _have a conceit left them in their misery, a miserable conceit_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Photographs taken at the time showed her with her eyes shut and looking distressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I did hear that with so much distressed property on the market (at the apartment/condo building or multiple homes level within different neighborhoods) there's an interesting opportunity for would-be cohousing developers to retrofit existing properties as cohousing communities.
Co-Housing Trend Hits Seattle « PubliCola
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We know that we can no longer ignore the fact that when there is no investment in these distressed neighborhoods, whether they're in the inner cities of New York and Chicago and Detroit, or back home where I come from in the Mississippi Delta, which is still the lowest income part of America -- we know we can't ignore those anymore.
Presidents Remarks At Dinkins Rally
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Robert, the journey to London, which had latterly seemed to her secretly - distressed anticipation like a sunken city -- a place of wonder with the waters over it -- all passed by smoothly; and then it became necessary to call a cabman, for whom, as he did her the service to lift her box, Rhoda felt a gracious respect, until a quarrel ensued between him and her uncle concerning sixpence; -- a poor sum, as she thought; but representing, as
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 1
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In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country.
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Your teammate has distressed us all, he will be dealt with harshly.