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

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

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.

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

Pastoralism is steadily losing its margin of manoeuvre, as rangelands are being lost at an alarming rate.

While the epidemiological statistics are alarming, the death rate has declined in recent weeks, from 7.6 to 3.6 .

The Monitoring Group learned that arms embargo violations had continued to occur at a brisk and alarming rate.

According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, homicides have been rising at an alarming rate for nearly three decades.

By October 1956, 40 patients had been discovered, 14 of whom had died an alarming mortality rate of 35 .

No country in the world was immune from natural disasters, which seemed to be increasing at an alarming rate.

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

Mr. Latheef (Maldives) The frequency and magnitude of natural disasters occurring all over the world are increasing at an alarming rate.

The Monitoring Group has determined that arms flows continued at an alarming rate and in large quantities during the reporting period.

The Forum recommends that Member States investigate the alarming rate of incarceration of indigenous women and communicate their findings to the Permanent Forum.

Indeed, this indicator paints a somewhat less alarming picture than that created by the headline youth unemployment rate of more than 50 in Spain, or even the 62.5 rate recently reached in Greece.

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

Some self anointed seers portray the problem as being one of finite natural resources, with the world running out of critical commodities at an alarming rate.

Sami made an alarming discovery.

This should be exciting, not alarming.

The human rights situation remained alarming.

Moreover, though the US unemployment rate has fallen, this largely reflects an alarming decline in labor force participation, with more than 6.5 million Americans since 2006 having given up looking for work.

Then there are the alarming human rights violations.

The Dutch economy s poor prospects are similarly alarming.

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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.

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.

The overall unemployment rate (12 ) has yet to peak, led by an alarming lack of jobs among the young (24 joblessness in the eurozone as a whole, with highs of 59 and 56 in Greece and Spain, respectively).

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.

Non governmental organizations are also deeply concerned about the lack of action taken by key actors, including Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and the private sector, among others, to curb the deforestation and forest degradation currently occurring at an alarming rate.

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

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

Information, documents and pictures obtained by the Monitoring Group on indicate that despite the newly elected Transitional Federal Government or, perhaps, because of it, arms embargo violations continued to occur at a brisk and alarming rate during the mandate period.

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