The cultivators' distress resulted from falling agricultural prices, heavy taxation, and a sense of political powerlessness.

Spiritual distress may result from the belief that cancer reflects punishment by God or may accompany a preoccupation with the question "Why me?"

It was originally developed by psychologist Daniel Hughes as an intervention for children whose emotional distress resulted from earlier separation from familiar caregivers.

Personal distress may even result in a more egoistic motivation to reduce it, by withdrawing from the stressor, for example, thereby decreasing the likelihood of prosocial behavior.

As with other sugar alcohols, gastrointestinal distress may result when food products that contain sorbitol are consumed.

Radiation, chemotherapy, gastrointestinal surgery, or emotional distress can result in diarrhea.

Headaches, varicose veins, corns and calluses, gastrointestinal distress, heat prostration and even vaginitis can result from attempts to "dress properly" or follow fashion trends.

An observer who didn't know the princess as well as Berry did would have assumed the distress resulted from Oversteegen's adamant refusal to agree to Ruth's proposal.

Their medical distress, according to the Doctor, resulted as much from their self-surgery as from their resurgent immune systems' rejection of their implants.

The worsening economic distress within Germany resulted in the Lausanne Conference, which voted to cancel reparations.