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Some popular prejudices around Europe seem to have become distressingly illiberal and even racist.

A distressingly large number of today's young have found nothing to strive for beyond a day-to-day pursuit of comfort and pleasure.

Unfortunately , despite their inherent inadequacies , the quick solutions often are left to hold the fort for a distressingly long time .

At the moment, the world's pandemic-alert system is distressingly secretive.

Perhaps. The overall tax bill from the industry might not be so distressingly low.

But before putting away the umbrellas, consider the threats to a distressingly slow recovery marred by a still-high 8. 9% unemployment rate.

The overall tax bill from the industry might not be so distressingly low.

But distressingly, peasants, like pandas, show little inclination to reproduce themselves.

Much of the vast neo-Darwinian literature is distressingly uncritical.

Cases of lead poisoning and other pollution have become a distressingly familiar byproduct of China's unchecked economic growth.

AMERICAN labour markets are faltering, and the script looks distressingly familiar.

With the support of the credit gone, a period of housing-market weakness was inevitable, but the actual decline has been distressingly bad.

Worst of all, unemployment is distressingly high, especially in the east and south-east and among women and the young.

Distressingly little has been written about deployment.

There are a lot of glossy , hype-intensive bad HTML books out there, and distressingly few good ones.

He died distressingly by the sword.

Traffic lock-ups remain a distressingly common occurrence in China, even as the causes have changed.

the courage to act is in distressingly short supply