OK, now smallpox is an extremely distressing illness.

I will make a distressing punishment overtake him.

I will make a distressing punishment overtake him.

that Day will be a hard and distressing Day.

that Day will be a hard and distressing Day.

Photography can also compel us to confront issues that are potentially distressing and controversial.

So, one of the questions I ask myself is, was this the most distressing TED ever?

The prevalence of an ideological component in the policies of international credit institutions is also distressing.

Seventh, we must urgently begin to remedy our distressing failures on nuclear non proliferation and disarmament.

Surely the Hour will be the moment of their promise, and that moment will be calamitous and distressing.

Surely the Hour will be the moment of their promise, and that moment will be calamitous and distressing.

We should add to that the distressing statistics about children, who will make up the youth of 2015.

The news of the currently escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territories was therefore highly regrettable and distressing.

Because this is the most distressing TED ever, I've been working with Neil Gershenfeld on next year's TED Bag.

And if the if the conference is anywhere near this distressing, then we're going to have a scream bag next year.

There's going to be a couple more distressing slides for those of you I'll let you know when you can look again.

Most distressing of all, even now, with the consequences of failure staring our political leaders in the face, they do not get it.

At the same time, however, the international community must understand that limitations under article IV could be imposed only in particularly distressing situations.

And when Our messengers came to Lot, he was perturbed by their coming and felt troubled on their account, and said 'This is a distressing day.

And when Our messengers came to Lot, he was perturbed by their coming and felt troubled on their account, and said 'This is a distressing day.

It was therefore distressing to have to address the Committee year after year regarding the plight of the Palestinian population, whose rights continued to be denied.

The Republic of Haiti unreservedly supports all negotiated, effective, comprehensive and lasting initiatives of the United Nations aimed at solving the distressing debt problem of the peoples of the poor countries.

The middle income countries needed predictable and consistent assistance if they were not to fall into distressing situations that would be more costly to cure than they would have been to prevent.

It is deplorable that those who would be counted upon for assistance are instead taking advantage of a distressing situation, in collusion with some warlords, to secure permission to dump those hazardous wastes.

Fortunately, at least half the voters in the region appreciate these improvements otherwise, the situation would be far worse. Nevertheless, a growing schism between left and right has led to a distressing level of policy paralysis.

Then when they forgot that wherewith they had been exhorted, We delivered those who restrained from evil, and We laid hold of those who did wrong with a distressing torment for they were wont to transgress.

Then when they forgot that wherewith they had been exhorted, We delivered those who restrained from evil, and We laid hold of those who did wrong with a distressing torment for they were wont to transgress.

What is particularly distressing about all this is that while the new age has both a bright side and a dark side, as far as Arabs and their culture are concerned, it is the latter that generally prevails.

The widening of the income gap between advanced and developing countries was distressing, and a strategy was needed to enable the developing countries to join in the global economy and participate in decision making in international financial and trade institutions.

The election is a disaster for Kenya, but the response of the international community, led by the US, is no less distressing. American foreign policy in Africa is in the hands of Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer, a former student of Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice.

Not only am I deeply troubled about those reported abuses but it is also distressing that the victims continue to be reluctant to notify the police of incidents out of fear of retaliation and a lack of confidence in the authorities' capacity and willingness to conduct proper investigations.

Young people find this particularly distressing, given that leisure time pursuits foster personal development, civic engagement, social and cultural integration, intercultural dialogue and tolerance, artistic creation, spirituality and religious observance, appreciation of cultural heritage, literacy and a host of other elements that are critical to inclusive and well functioning societies.

If you are highly sexual for six months in a way that feels uncontrolled and becomes distressing, and use sexuality for relieving feelings of stress and boredom or without consideration of the emotional effect on others (formerly known as being a cad ), you are diagnosable. This disorder presumes that using sex to relieve unhappiness, and feeling guilty about it, is also diagnosable.

I vividly remember the slightly ludicrous, slightly risqué, and somewhat distressing predicament in which Western diplomats in Prague found themselves during the Cold War. They regularly needed to resolve the delicate issue of whether to invite to their embassy celebrations various Charter 77 signatories, human rights activists, critics of the communist regime, displaced politicians, or even banned writers, scholars, and journalists people with whom the diplomats were generally friends.