What is most alarming is that this crisis is predictable and preventable.

Yet the failure of the European institutions is more alarming.

The growth of drug related violent crime is alarming.

Then the exchange took an even more chilling turn.

Besides, a telegram is always so startling to your mother.

This indicates a worrying high rate of abandonment.

73. Most alarming is the fact that degradation can, in some cases, be irreversible.

An alarming picture

The scene was alarming and heartbreaking.

A startling figure.

The most alarming aspect of this is the increase in the incidence of cancer of the thyroid gland.

Mr President, the observations made by Michel Rocard on the right to health and social protection are alarming but, unfortunately, pertinent.

The high number of dengue cases is alarming.

Especially alarming is the high popularity of sweet soft drinks, the final report of the survey concludes.

It would be alarming if we failed to act immediately in this situation.

In the most challenged economies, unemployment, particularly among young people, will remain alarmingly high and persistent.

This was a depressing and alarming example.

Particularly worrying were a number of bombings that have caused great anxiety among the population.

More alarmingly, some commentators liken Turkey s neighborhood policy to a revival of Ottoman imperialism.

The documentary offered an informative and alarming portrait of urban ecology.

The failure of the system of collective security is especially alarming in this regard.

Kashin's parallel should alarm his readers.

Our children are becoming depressed at an alarming rate.

The physical condition of some of them is giving cause for concern.

The most alarming development is how deep the ideological vetting now cuts, invading areas that once were immune to this kind of manipulation.

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He mentioned Kashmir I find this alarming.

In nine provinces, girls' non enrolment stands at more than 80 per cent, and at an alarming 99 per cent in two provinces.

In Brazil's metropolitan centers, where the problem of violence is most acute, murder has primarily affected poor youth between the ages of 15 and 24.

Activists in Cochabamba protest against the alarming rates of violence against women.

97. Humanitarian crises continue to increase at an alarming rate.

The entire scene is simultaneously alarming and repugnant.

Her blood pressure was an alarming 230 over 170.

In recent mouths, numerous reports have confirmed the staggering level of mass rape in South Sudan, Africa's newest nation.

That is a truly alarming figure because two weeks later it was stressed that in Spain alone more than 800 000 cases of Hepatitis Β a year were recorded.

Neglect of European Union environment law forms an alarming background to this proposal.

The budget is a substantial one ECU 495m the number of applicants, very vast the results obtained so far, interesting.

This alarming fact should encourage us to take measures very quickly.

The health situation of some of these prisoners is extremely alarming.

The latest report from the World Bank on poverty in Madagascar is at the very least alarming

Now the water table is falling at a dangerous pace, as the underground water is being pumped much faster than the rains are recharging it.

Malaysia has recently been gripped by an alarming social issue suicide.

The Committee also notes that suicide among women is alarmingly high in the State party.

In Ireland, for example, it is at present impossible to obtain a permanent health insurance income continuance quotation which does not exclude cover for illness arising from pregnancy.