These are troublous times.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : troublous times. ,a troublous sea. ,a troublous preacher.    From Dictionary.com. 

We live, Mr. Chairman, in troublous and trying times.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Use is the Commonwealth?] Reference

The grace of faith is a sovereign cordial, and an effectual antidote against fainting-fits in troublous times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

The street shall be built again, as spacious and splendid as ever it was, and the walls, even in troublous times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

In times of peace we should learn ourselves, and teach others, that which in troublous times both they and we must practise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

While his enemies sought to destroy him, he quitted the place; to teach us in troublous times to shift for our own safety; but see here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

"Suppose we all clear out, so Nat can cut upstairs if he wants to," proposed Franz, and led the way to the barn, their refuge in troublous times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys] Reference

"We live in troublous and trying times -- the world is full of horrors and the great thing about our age is that you can now see most of them right at home on television.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bermuda Calling] Reference

We are in troublous waters, and the man who is abdicating his citizenship or not supporting his private and business interests today comes mighty near being a modern traitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Opportunity and Obligations of Business Men] Reference

The night passed, and the troublous morning broke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

Russia during these troublous times presents a dreary picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

City, and to vindicate its action throughout the late troublous times.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

In these troublous times any idea, however absurd, might be acted upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

The idea could not be carried out in consequence of the troublous times of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

States, gives valuable information as to the troublous times of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

At the beginning of the troublous times of which these towers are reminders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Happy country was ours to have a MacLeod on the spot through these troublous years!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference

The troublous times of Henry I. and Stephen were specially unfavourable to this place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference

In these later troublous times, when so many of the men have disappeared in the maelstrom of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

And so the weeks went by, in dreary, troublous fashion, cut into a hundred little barren segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

There is no doubt that such a mutual arrangement was made in the troublous feudal period of mediæval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

In those troublous times, however, the roads were so insecure that such companies did not often pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference

There were many hard and troublous days ahead for the little settlement, but their courage did not falter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

The troublous political times in their native countries doubtless had much to do with their emigration hither.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

It is a matter of common knowledge that there have been troublous times in Ireland before those of the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

In these troublous times a king is miraculously sent to be a bulwark to the people against the inroads of their foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

Later, in 1648, after troublous times in Gloucester, when even the cathedral itself was in danger, Thomas Pury, jun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference

But Osmund, throughout the troublous times, had lived quietly in his country home with his wife and beautiful daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

It is not strange, therefore, that as the troublous times approached these functions of the state should be multiplied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

The preacher often dealt with public questions, and especially during the troublous times which preceded the Revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

HENRY THE THIRD, sometimes called "Henry of Winchester," came to the throne in troublous times, before he was ten years of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

During the dark and troublous times of the Revolutionary War it was the keep or stronghold of Jacob Van Tassel, a valiant Dutchman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference

The busiest man during these troublous times was Itzig Maier, the beadle, whose acquaintance we have already made as the messenger sent by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Henriette de France, widow of Charles I of England, taking refuge in France from the troublous revolt at home, lived in the Louvre in 1644.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Once begun this story will hold the reader to the end, for he will be taken into the very heart of those troublous times, and will witness many a thrilling scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

This troublous state, all Regions and common wealthes, haue felte in open sedicions and tumul - tes, raised by theim, it is a plagued and pestiferous kinde of gouernemente.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference