Unemployment remains far too high, with alarming levels of long term and youth joblessness.

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

In Europe, the market for Greek debt has frozen, and interest rate spreads between Irish and German euro denominated debt recently reached alarming levels.

The Committee expresses its deep concern at the alarming levels of mortality among children, with 25 per cent of children dying before they reach the age of 5.

Sami made an alarming discovery.

This should be exciting, not alarming.

The human rights situation remained alarming.

Then there are the alarming human rights violations.

The Dutch economy s poor prospects are similarly alarming.

The consequences of an uneducated labor force are alarming.

But the bill is far more alarming than that.

From a broader geopolitical perspective, the situation becomes alarming.

Forced displacement has become a problem of alarming dimensions.

The cases involving women and unaccompanied minors were alarming.

The information was incomplete, but it was solid and alarming.

Others estimate a lower, but still alarming, rate of 30 .

The Iran crisis is moving fast in an alarming direction.

Moreover, there has been an alarming increase in regional tensions.

The increase in unfunded liabilities to 262 million is alarming.

In every way, it has taken on particularly alarming dimensions.

The situation of women and children detainees was particularly alarming.

PRINCETON As Egypt trembles on the brink of civil war, with alarming levels of violence and hardening divisions on all sides, it is hard to find a truly bright spot anywhere in the Middle East or North Africa.

Moreover, as Palin s political persona takes shape, it looks increasingly alarming.

Those factors had resulted in an alarming spread of child malnutrition.

The renewed state of violence is, in our view, quite alarming.

Our countries should not be condemned to stagger from one crisis to the next. By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

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

Furthermore, the phenomenon of illicit trafficking in nuclear material was highly alarming.

The reported abuse of micro credits to pay dowries is one alarming example.

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

Instead, the explanation of Europe s vocal decline is more obvious, but also more alarming.

Although hardly in crisis (yet), Japan s fiscal situation grows more alarming by the day.

During the past decade, the country's limited forests have decreased at an alarming rate.

23. The Committee is concerned about the alarming increase in the maternal mortality rate.

This is critical in light of the alarming spread of HIV AIDS among women.

One thing is clear this trend is growing and it grows at an alarming pace.

Commercial real estate prices fell from May to June this year by an alarming 4 .

Not trusting that officials will be candid about alarming information, we rely more on rumors.

The teenage unemployment rate is another under appreciated indicator that is at an alarming level.

I don t agree with that, but the cynicism that such a view reflects is alarming.

Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.

The incident is the latest manifestation of the growing and alarming religious intolerance in Myanmar.

Anti Semitism had always existed, but in recent years it had grown to alarming proportions.

Rebel factions, opposition fighters and Government forces continue to target innocent civilians with alarming frequency.

So far, the message from the most recent tables is not too alarming for the incumbents.