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Distress in sentence

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And when I say "enjoyed," it's an odd word to use, because no one would want to think of anyone being in absolute distress or pain.
On that particular Friday, she developed severe respiratory distress, and her eyes were menacingly red.
Now, this does not show the attack on Ian Tomlinson, but he appears to be in some distress.
They are the cause of much distress.
People that were hungry and hurting were signaling their distress, were signaling their need for help.
The CDC recently conducted a survey where they asked respondents simply to tell them whether they experienced significant psychological distress in the previous week.
In it, he offered suggestions such as: "Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks," "Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods" and "Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in distress."
When someone helps themselves to a woman, it not only triggers discomfort and distress, but the unspoken experiences of our mothers' lives, sisters' lives and generations of women before us.
And I watched my own young grandchildren now come along and they're, much to the distress of my children, they are acting just like we did.
Almost anything can cause the occasional restless night - a snoring partner, physical pain, or emotional distress.
In the last 20 years, the Hearing Voices Movement has established hearing voices networks in 26 countries across five continents, working together to promote dignity, solidarity and empowerment for individuals in mental distress, to create a new language and practice of hope, which, at its very center, lies an unshakable belief in the power of the individual.
And likewise, for survivors of distress and adversity, that we remember we don't have to live our lives forever defined by the damaging things that have happened to us.
They'd been running that since 2008, and already have stopped cardiac arrests and distress within the hospital.
And for me, the Man of Steel, Christopher Reeve, has best raised the awareness on the distress of spinal cord injured people.
And after watching that, we looked at how willing people were to offer up their own time to a stranger presented to them in the lab, who was in distress.
If I'd felt the distress, I could not have done it.
It's actually a pretty recent phenomenon that we feel that we have to talk to someone to understand their emotional distress.
Before the early 20th century, physicians often diagnosed emotional distress in their patients just by observation.
If you keep on being confronted with suffering, you might have empathic distress, burnout, so you need the greater sphere of loving-kindness.
I would set off the distress signal, but quite frankly, I don't think they'd ever be able to find this little boat.
DL: Tori set off her distress beacon and was rescued by a passing container ship.
But what still bothers us is our distress over the fact that even numbers seem to be only part of the whole numbers.
The conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress, and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction.
Okay, let's say a bullet is about to hit a beautiful damsel in distress.
Say the day comes and you get the chance to save a damsel in distress falling from a helicopter.
He's really engaged for a struggle for movement, fraught with acute mental distress.
They can respond with kindness to people in distress, or with aggression to threats because stress and anger manifest as a cloud of hormones recognizable to the dog's nose.
The Bell X-1 was the first of many supersonic aircraft to follow, with later designs reaching speeds over Mach 3. Aircraft traveling at supersonic speed create a shock wave with a thunder-like noise known as a sonic boom, which can cause distress to people and animals below or even damage buildings.
People affected have little or no control over their obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, which tend to be time consuming and interfere with work, school or social life to the point of causing significant distress.
In extreme cases, some people have surgery to tighten the LES to minimize their distress.
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