How To Use Alarming In A Sentence
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It appeared the family had never been properly screened by the DIB, which was alarming given that its activities were supposedly well monitored, he added.
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The suicide rate among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly.
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More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
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What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
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On the surface, the report could appear alarming.
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It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end.
The Judge
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We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.
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The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations.
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Campaigners will step up their fight to dual the A120 after reflecting on alarming new figures.
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The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing non-urgent but easy procedures first is life threatening and wrong.
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In Liverpool there is a sulphurous whiff of rebellion - bitter talk, alarming to some, of direct action.
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Poor Ernest has been suffering since Wednesday last with the jaundice, which is very distressing and troublesome, though not alarming ....
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
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More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
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One early high note goes alarmingly astray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's begin with two conversations I have with alarming regularity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Blower, knows how to bring down that robust health, which is a very alarming state of the frame when it is considered secundum artem.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
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Southern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted half-yearly results yesterday that have implications far beyond the pockets of its investors, or even the 31,000 residents of its 750 care homes, and the staff who work in them, for whom the future is alarmingly uncertain.
Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
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To religious conservatives, however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
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In fact, sleep apnoea sufferers are so zonked out that they have an alarming tendency to fall asleep at the wheel.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I latched on to this hold and let my feet swing out from the face below, I felt an alarming sense of fatigue in my arms.
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He turned on the heat as high as it would go, and an alarming gust of hot air burst through the broken vents.
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The soft noises of slumber coming from the kitchen were quite comforting until a very alarming, roaring noise boomed down from the hills behind the post.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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At a time when diseases spread by mosquitoes such as dengue fever and filariasis are on the increase, the experts' warning is alarming.
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She told me that the stomach biopsy showed mild chronic gastritis, which is neither a surprise nor especially alarming.
Assorted
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I pointed out the mysterious and mildly alarming position of the bag to an usher, and he, rather phlegmatically, held on to it until the woman returned to claim it.
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First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
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More than €1 trillion will be injected into the eurozone to halt an alarming slide into stagnation, it was announced yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Me and Keith got caught by an alarmingly large gust of wind and ended up in the drink.
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It is very alarming that some Bantustan administrations have been given land for personal use under the pretext of so-called chieftainship whereas these leaders are historically and traditionally not chiefs.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.
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The fact that it journeyed unimpeded to its final destination was offered as alarming proof of the porousness of our ports.
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In our region, the home is precisely where the most widespread and alarming forms of violence against women, adolescents and children - such as femicide, rape and domestic abuse - occur," the activist said.
IPS Inter Press Service
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In the West we are faced with this fact in alarming health statistics like one in two men and one in three women will get cancer.
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The rate of violent crime is alarmingly high: in 2004 over 2000 murders were committed as well as countless vehicle hold-ups carried out at gun point.
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He had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent.
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Through that month and the three following the liquid items follow with alarming monotony, only separated here and there by entries of "tee" and sugar and certain yards of "cotting" and "scanes" of silk for Sarah.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
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An alarming new survey has found that almost one in four parents fret constantly about whether they have the ability to raise their children properly.
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Reservoir levels may look alarmingly low but water chiefs are confident the region is not facing a crisis.
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A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly.
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The number of reported crimes is increasing at an alarming rate.
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Going solo in any aeroplane is alarming.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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The most alarming statistic was the state of the game before the advent of this precipitous decline.
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The Federation was a growing tyrannical power that was spreading across the Earth at an alarming rate, due to its vast military strength.
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The leakage of technological secrets is reaching alarming proportions.
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They fill the same ecological niche as the bunny, only the bunny is better at it, and so since the introduction of the bunny to Australia, bilby numbers have dropped alarmingly.
Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest
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The use of synthetic marijuana, which often is called "spice" after a popular brand name, is rising at an alarming rate across the military, commanders say.
Synthetic marijuana widely used at Naval Academy, some midshipmen say
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Her blue satin heels clacked alarmingly in the empty hall, but she didn't care.
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The number of vehicles plying on our roads is increasing in alarming proportion posing threat to pedestrians and vehicle users.
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Well-paying jobs for unskilled labor are disappearing at an alarming rate.
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The haste with which the trial is being conducted is alarming.
Times, Sunday Times
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The levels of falsifications by job applicants in the industry are alarming.
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He's seen him picking footballs out of the net in Highfield Road with alarming frequency.
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For example, when pushing RAM into any of the slots, the board will flex alarmingly due to not being supported on the extreme right side.
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We expect the two leaders at today's Press conference to apologise to their members for misguiding them on the matter or explain in simple terms what they meant when they made alarming statements that the pay tax would go up.
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Even the basics are not up to scratch as the court, laid at the last minute, slopes alarmingly and is uneven in some places and positively lumpy in others.
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There has been an alarming increase in illegal dumping at the recycling banks at Merville.
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The serifs, though distracting to a small minority, allow the reader to glance over words at an alarming pace.
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The report also uncovered other alarming attitudes towards international cyber espionage.
Computing
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Economic privilege and injustice is increasing and class prejudice is accepted to an alarming degree.
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One alarming discovery has been the timespan of usage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two names in particular are mentioned with alarming regularity: Margaret and Bridget.
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We have been talking about vaccines for some time, stockpiling them and also developing new vaccines, should this virus mutate, which is the big if that everyone's been talking about, also possibly mandatory evacuations -- this certainly was alarming to some people -- and even deploying the National Guard.
CNN Transcript May 3, 2006
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The world is richer and more alarming for its continuing existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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That leaves us with the illicit arms trade, the most alarming section of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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The disease has spread at an alarming rate.
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Many people found their inboxes clogged with alarming messages that their computers were infected, even though they were not.
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Your game is disappearing from the radar screen of national interest at an alarming rate.
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an alarming, even horrifying, picture
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Mr Massow was on television this morning again, with his rather alarming new haircut.
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The Essex force has declared war on reckless motorcyclists in response to the recent alarming surge in bike-related accidents.
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The paralysing effect of a tiger's roar is said by some to come from its infrasonic content (around 18Hz, the resonant frequency of the human eyeball, alarmingly).
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York City could soon face a scrap to save their Football League status if they continue to surrender points in the alarming fashion that has been displayed in the club's last two outings.
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But one professional mediator who offered his services for free at last month's meeting thought better of it after some board members refused, and he got what he described as alarming glares from residents.
Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
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The poll does ask some loaded questions, but I believe an alarming level of sanctimony is implicit in those answers (Is the US more divided by class than Europe, I think not … are our racial tensions more acute, not even close).
Think Progress » The task of winning hearts and minds
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Finding blood in your vomit or actually vomiting blood can be alarming.
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Even more alarming is the increase in child porn sites on the Internet.
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But the indicator that appeared on the display before me was counting down the distance between us at an alarming rate.
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We ignored the distractions and chiseled away at the rocks before us at alarming speed, all fearful that the chaos would catch up with us.
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But there is something so alarming about the huge cuts made to companies, particularly when you read of the astronomical amounts some people are earning, like bankers.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the end, wickets fell at an alarming rate and it was West who scented an unlikely victory.
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The ten weight rod bent alarmingly I could feel the corks bend under the pressure.
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The economic story of the year has been the rapid and alarming decline of the global economy.
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As the number of blacks increased alarmingly in the colonies, some southern colonists made efforts to control the slave trade.
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He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
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A shortened time horizon may of course have alarming implications for social and political tolerance.
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But more alarmingly, a planned fraud trial was scrapped because Burke was deemed mentally unfit to appear in the dock.
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He described the situation as alarming because, according to experts, the quality of the grain was deteriorating with every passing day.
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Right now, Worldcon-wise, my main concern is the alarming delay in releasing convention hote info.
Hugo Voting and Nominations on the Cheap!
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This superb, but alarmingly underrated guitarist has a fine pedigree.
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Agricultural open space is disappearing at an alarming rate.
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The study provides enough alarming data to warrant emergency measures by State Governments to reclassify wetlands as protected areas.
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Both drinking and smoking among young people are increasing to an alarming extent.
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“Though we talk of the progress that the race has made in learning and enlightenment,” he wrote, “it is alarming to notice … how germs which men deem dead really lurk dormant for ages, and then develop themselves with startling rapidity when they find the proper menstruum”:
A Furnace Afloat
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The disease has spread at an alarming rate.
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Trees and forests had been cut down to provide fuel and even the most fertile soils were eroding at an alarming rate.
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But sensible people surely find this not only abhorrent, but alarming.
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Although the U.S. has a disease burden half of that of India, it has an annual increase rate of six per cent which was alarming.
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Their multiple viewpoints bring her back to life with alarming clarity.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there have also been times when they've looked alarmingly indecisive, as if the pressure is already beginning to get to them.
The Sun
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Astronauts on International Space Station lose alarming amounts of hipbone strength, University of California-Irvine
NASA Watch: January 2009 Archives
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A more likely—and alarming—scenario is that the current regime will harden its stance and tighten the screws or be replaced by an even more nationalistic and militant one.
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As the characters struggle to navigate the tangled web of their assorted affairs and bust-ups, they are routinely forced to spout alarming quantities of American therapy-speak of the kind popularised by shows such as Dr Phil.
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Equally alarming is the amount of debt many Rochdale families are saddled with.
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The world is richer and more alarming for its continuing existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, there is alarming evidence that a significant number of people actually believe that where drinking is a factor in rape, it mitigates the offence itself.
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Over the years that followed, our paths crossed with alarming regularity.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are alarming numbers and economically very damaging - and they are not mere conjecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Old Morrison was all for it; he had gluttonized to such a tune that he'd put on flesh alarmingly, and all he wanted to do was lie down, belching and refreshing his ill nature in a hot climate.
Flashman's Lady
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A bee swarm makes for an alarming sight to the uninformed but swarming bees are not dangerous, only homeless.
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But he was still her sister's husband and the fanatical words of the speech came back to her, alarming her.
THE WHITE DOVE
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They play a couple of gun-toting hardmen in post-civil war New Mexico territory, the stamping ground of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, who have somewhat alarmingly close encounters of the third kind with extraterrestrials.
Cowboys & Aliens – review
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It metaphorises cyberpunk's social instabilities into an alarming maelstrom of biological uncertainty: exaggerated clarity becomes exaggerated anxiety.
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Malton appointed a town centre manager and set out to raise the profile of its shopping centre two years ago because of an alarming drift of customers to supermarkets outside Scarborough and York.
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But as the bill expands on how that strategy will be delivered, it raises some alarming issues.
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The den/kitchen area was all done in an orange color that would have been alarming had it not been dulled a bit by the kind of dinginess that looks sticky and usually is.
Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone
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But they were scarcely more honest -- embezzlement of funds and bribery of officials continued to occur to an alarming extent.
America Past and Present
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The building boom is in full flight at present and the amount of new houses going up or are still planned is alarming to say the least.
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The figures are not only alarming but they have a telling effect on the domestic debt.
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A goal ahead after four minutes, two up after 19, his players were coasting, and playing with the confident swagger of a team who knew it, when everything unravelled with alarming simplicity.
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There they find a previously unknown virus and one patient with alarming symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Servillo's performance at the centre of Paolo Sorrentino's grotesque portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, as a kind of querulous, jug-eared gnome with homicidal instincts, was hugely entertaining and alarming.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Inspired by the alarming numbers of mindless bimbos at my school who have begun wearing yellow ribbons in support of Schapelle ‘I didn't do it!’
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He is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch.
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In fact his increasingly strident denials that a deal is in the offing suggest that the prospect is alarming voters, as it should.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he could not foretell that the _descensus Averni_ would be so alarmingly rapid.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
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The sky above the mountains was an alarming mass of bruises, there was a taste of snow in the air.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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By the time Chi's perky pop-reggae descends into an alarming grindie rock-out, you'll hate yourself for having liked it, but as she helpfully points out, "You should watch your lip/ Giving too much gyp/ You need a gobstopper baby".
This week's new singles
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There has been an alarming rise in separatism and inter-ethnic violence in the country.
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There has been an alarming rise in the rate of inflation.
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That said, he is a terrific diarist, unselfconscious and candid to an alarming degree.
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Our shocking pictures show how reckless drivers around the country are endangering lives by phoning and texting with alarming regularity.
The Sun
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South African statistics indicate a success ratio of around 2% in as far as the rehabilitation of a criminal offender is concerned. This alarming statistic speaks for itself.
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The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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This experience was extremely alarming for the family.
Times, Sunday Times
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The participants called for the formulation of guidelines for journalists to prevent them from publishing alarming stories that contribute to runs on commercial banks.
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Following the fall of the openers, the batsmen dropped at an alarming rate.
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She could be alarming and intimidating if it weren't for the self-parodying way she 'wears' her persona.
Times, Sunday Times
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I read about Sarah Palin and her yahoo-account ... it´s alarming how naive some people are concerning the www ... even more alarming if these people are prominent and should know that information about them spread fast by the media and can cause their degression or at least some kinda scandal. mindcorrosive on September 22, 2008 at 11: 20pm
GNUCITIZEN Comments
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It's comfortable, remarkably light and alarmingly easy to use, and what it lacks in pinpoint accuracy it makes up for in rate of fire.
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He called this phenomenon "a truly alarming spectacle, if we consider not only how extensively attacks are spreading but also their unheard-of numerical proportion, and the fact that they receive widespread legal approval and the involvement of certain sectors of health-care personnel.
Media
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To some extent, the heavily self-parodic aspects of the enterprise - at one point he reports on treating Tony Blair to a disquisition on the Shia, whom he compared to 'nut-rissole artists' - make the crazy-uncle outbursts less alarming.
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Somehow less alarming than that was was the deadly looking metal claw hanging from its left shoulder.
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What is much more alarming is the apparent acquiescence - even complicity - of the nation in its own enslavement.
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I'm still playing backgammon for money; I'm still writing and, more alarmingly, I've rediscovered boardgames.
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The young girls she treats in alarming numbers are the victims of broken homes and parental neglect.
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In any event, we are seeing many alarming precursory symptoms of social and political instability.
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The trade in souvenirs made of sea turtle shells has reached an alarming level.
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Both drinking and smoking among young people are increasing to an alarming extent.
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The next morning the breakers over the shallow plateau might have had surfers across the world salivating in anticipation, but for divers they looked alarming.
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Thys is concerned that molas comprise an ‘alarmingly’ large portion of the eastern Pacific drift net fishery by-catch, and that population numbers in the western Pacific are declining.
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The puncture wound stings a little and, more alarming, my forearms and hands begin tingling.
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It is becoming alarmingly normal for this newspaper to counsel crime, spread hate, and threaten lives.
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To hear the term tossed around across the political spectrum (or at least, the spectrum of opinion permitted by the political and media establishment) is alarming to say the very least.
The New American
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Progress is often alarmingly rapid as their enthusiasm and natural abilities adapt to the new environment.
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But there have also been times when they've looked alarmingly indecisive, as if the pressure is already beginning to get to them.
The Sun
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Insurance companies are warning drivers not to be heroes following the outbreak of an alarming new trend in car crime.
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There they find a previously unknown virus and one patient with alarming symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seldom causes chilliness, which is frequently a disturbing symptom, especially in fevers of a low type, and even, when the temperature is alarmingly high, causing the patient to dread the employment of sponging with cool or tepid water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
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The welter of emotions arising out of the dictates of Iranian faith, justice, honour, pride and fear here is alarming and compelling.
Berlin film festival – review
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The crash had a period of exuberance followed by an alarmingly rapid tumble.
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The astronomical interest rates charged by some credit card and loan companies and the financial pressures of modern living mean debts can mount up at an all-too-alarming rate.
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In several villages and towns dotting the district, acute shortage of potable water has turned into an alarming situation.
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The doubts maturing in Coleridge's own mind concerning events that summer blossomed alarmingly at the end of September.
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The tub sank alarmingly, but even when he was fully in, it still had several inches of freeboard.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance, and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures.
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The alarmingly dangerous scene peasant laborer dock is irritable exchange blows, lose entering river middle!
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The costs of the project are rising at an alarming rate.
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But today, the Bolton Evening News has learned that children under the age of 16 are using sunbeds in the town, which is alarming health chiefs.
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This contagion was spreading at an alarming rate, thanks also to the society's growing yet harmful indifference.
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He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
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Pressing the magic fax button was for him far more alarming than the intricacies of the concert, pedal harp.
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The ITRE/IMCO committee are meeting on the 31 March 2009 to dicuss these and other alarming amendments.
Boing Boing
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In a different and much more alarming category is the fate of the Soviet industry.
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In fact his increasingly strident denials that a deal is in the offing suggest that the prospect is alarming voters, as it should.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is an alarmingly low figure given that more and more people are listening to radio on portable digital devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire.
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And her alabaster skin, always such a stunning foil for her violet eyes, was an alarming shade of yellow.
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Technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate.
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I find the prospect of being without work extremely alarming.
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Its promulgation brings up another whole set of negative, alarming issues concerning the safety of our people, our way of life and human rights.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: President gives former PM new five-year mandate
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It's a way to militarize space without alarming anyone.
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Alarmingly, since the 1980s S. pyogenes has been identified to be globally responsible for a class of emerging, life threatening, invasive infections including the "flesh-eating" disease, necrotizing fasciitis, septicemia, and the excretion of the pyrogenic exotoxin-associated toxic shock syndrome
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And, for good measure, there is a versifying King Rat, pleasantly old-fashioned scenery from Terry Parsons, and a spectacular underwater film sequence, requiring 3D specs, in which octopus-tentacles alarmingly reach out to us, and sharks loom in our faces.
Dick Whittington - review
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One academic says the proposal will increase the gap between State and independent schools to an alarming degree.
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Not only is it disappointing that so many legislators were hornswoggled by the cute initiative messaging is everything these days, it is also alarming that they didn't understand the business case at all.
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish, and Bipartisan to Boot
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The faster taper rod takes on an alarming shape while the through-action rod absorbs the lunges of the fish and maintains the anglers control.
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The prospect for personal injury lawyers is alarming.
Times, Sunday Times
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She recalled the alarming news brought to the Hôtel de Noailles of the march of the viragoes on
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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It's been known for years that, as the Corps keeps the Mississippi River channel clear for navigation, it dumps what it dredges in the Gulf of Mexico -- at the same time that the state's coastal wetlands, deprived of sediment from the leveed-off river (and damaged by thousands of miles of pipelines and canals serving the oil industry), continue to disappear at an alarming rate.
Harry Shearer: Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers
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There was the waiting surgeon, green-gowned nurses and all the alarming accoutrements of modern medicine.
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Decisions can have alarming consequences and non-decisions can be fatal.
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Despite this rather alarming fact, essential oils are harmless to skin if used correctly as advocated in this book.
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In 2004, the Army even issued this warning bulletin calling electrocution a killer, growing at an alarming rate.
CNN Transcript May 28, 2008
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The sun was sliding toward the horizon, throwing beautiful but alarming alpenglow on the mountains and valleys below.
Summit Meetings
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His arrival was more alarming than he feared.
TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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Both texts address an issue of alarming proportions for the welfare of the aging and home-bound.
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All the gowk in him came uppermost; he did not know what he was doing; he put the Bible awkwardly on the book-board in front of him, and it, too, slid to the floor with a noise even more alarming than that of the rolling sweet.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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The boa, which is occasionally seen, is huge and alarming in appearance; but it is looked upon as a friend rather than an enemy.
Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades
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Pollution, noise, tainted food, plastics, celebrity boxing - we live in an alarmingly toxic environment.
