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Example sentences for: dismayed

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As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.
2. Bohdan Krawchenko, a Ukrainian democratic activist, is dismayed at his country's rigged presidential elections.
The London Evening Standard said that even those who wholeheartedly supported the offensive were "deeply dismayed by the fact that it is President Clinton who has made the decision, who has precipitated this grave step.
So dismayed are professors and administrators at the poor quality of their students' speech, reports the Boston Globe , that a number of schools, from Smith College to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are increasing classroom speaking requirements and offering electives to help students lose speech tics such as "whatever" and "you know."
I am dismayed to hear of Prudence's return to her needlework.