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troubled

truh buhld

  • v  move deeply
  • v  to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
  • v  disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
  • v  take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
  • v  cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
  • a  characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
    troubled areas
    fell into a troubled sleep
    a troubled expression
    troubled teenagers
  • s  characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
    these troubled areas

  • For almost 40 years, the aircraft carrier Clemenceau plied the world's seas as the flag bearer of the French navy, deploying off troubled coasts from Djibouti in 1974 to Yugoslavia .
  • A question of sanityThe revelations that appeared in the Japanese press last week painted a chilling portrait of a pilot with a troubled psyche.
  • A new Canadian study adds to the evidence that punishing troubled teens within the juvenile-justice system exacerbates their bad behavior.
News & Articles

  • Principal at troubled NY school steps down
    Principal at troubled NY school steps down NEW YORK (AP) — The principal of the Bronx High School of Science is stepping down amid an investigation into hazing on the boys' track team. The newspaper reports that three juniors on the track team were arrested in February after they were accused of fondling a freshman.
    June 14, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
  • Book Review: Business Techniques in Troubled Times: A Tool Box of Small Business Success - by Thomas H. Gray
    Book Review: Business Techniques in Troubled Times: A Tool Box of Small Business Success - by Thomas H. Gray Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:00 pm, Saturday, June 8, 2013 Within three years of startup about 50% of small businesses fail, and after ...
    June 14, 2013 - seattlepi.com
  • Troubled Coventry Get Stadium Rent Waived for a Year
    Financially-troubled Coventry City can stay at their Ricoh Arena home rent-free next season while the English third-tier club try to sort out their debts, the stadium's owners said on Tuesday.
    June 11, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • President Bush in 940 News
    Bush, who once owned the Texas Rangers, said, "I've been troubled by the steroid allegations."
  • Barack Obama in Xinhua
    Whenever I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people see that, I think they're rightfully troubled,said Obama.
  • John McCain in International Herald Tribune
    I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, 'Well, you know that Mr Obama is a Muslim'. Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a... Colin Powell http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFIrHcfmI_Gztl083HUxg5wd3fpzg Irish Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/front/2008/1020/1224454388518.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHJrb6M7BaGJY5u_9tMSCAKNcIuAA Oct 19, 2008 102221 135692 troublemaker McCain said King was called an agitator, a troublemaker, a malcontent, and a disturber of the peace. These are often the terms applied to men and women of conscience who will not endure cruelty, nor abide injustice. We hear them to this day - in...

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