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

Clearly, if that alarming trend continues, our ability to catch up with the Millennium Development Goals will continue to slip.

Of concern are a slight increase in police brutality, an alarming trend in juvenile suicides and the forced return of refugees to Somaliland .

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.

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.

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

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

Teasing the bride and groom on their wedding day is part of Chinese marriage custom. However, in recent years, that custom has been twisted in an alarming way in mainland China to include groomsmen sexually assaulting bridesmaids. The trend is in the spotlight thanks to two recent cases.

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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.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

This trend must be reversed.

There is clearly a trend.

Part of a regional trend

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

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.

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

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.

Unfortunately, that trend may be reversing.

Reversing this trend demands urgent action.

The current trend is toward decentralization.