The situation in Afghanistan has become very problematic.

Your strategy was very disturbing to me.

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

However, the lack of the necessary resources to implement such a mandate was a matter of concern.

And there is disturbing evidence that news of the crisis has not yet reached some economics departments.

Nor is it the first country to combine an uncertain political transition with worrisome economic and financial conditions.

Meat requisitioning was particularly alarming and ruinous for the Kazakhs, said Omarbekov, who has been researching the famine for a quarter of a century.

Second, Maliki s tenure has been worrying to those who believe in democracy and the peaceable transfer of power.

More recently, there have been troubling indications that remnants of the Taliban and other extremist groups are reorganizing.

A very disconcerting practice is documented by various sources collective punishment based upon guilt by association .

Facing worrisomely high and debilitating inflation, Volcker declared war against it and won.

Lastly, it can serve as a vehicle for phenomena which are of great concern such as commercial fraud in various forms, money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

In other sectors, however, the situation was discouraging, as in the case of illicit manufacture of opium and amphetamine type stimulants, which had continued to rise.

A troubling proportion of the opposition forces are Islamic extremists, and there is no guarantee that weapons deliveries will stay out of their hands.

As Eid Al Fitr (the end of Ramadan) approaches, women in Egypt are bracing themselves for even more sexual harassment than what has already become a disturbing norm.

The reports of the Committee and of the Secretary General continue to contain very disturbing accounts and revelations and to reflect stark realities concerning the situation on the ground.

Settlement activities have been accompanied by disturbing information concerning plans to establish permanent links between several West Bank settlements, particularly in East Jerusalem and its environs.

Trends in the region s two giants are especially worrisome, with inflation having pierced the 5 threshold in China and running in excess of 8 in India.

But there are three specific talismanic issues on which he and his colleagues have taken worrying positions, jangling regional nerves.

Despite the recent positive political developments, the report gave a disturbing picture of continuing grave violations by Israel of the human rights of the Palestinian population under its occupation.

At the same time, however, the international community must understand that limitations under article IV could be imposed only in particularly distressing situations.

As noted above, the Office has initiated investigations into three situations (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Darfur, the Sudan) and is also collecting information on eight other situations of concern.

The stalling of the inauguration of the President elect, which was finally held on 1 October 2005, raised internal tensions further and sent worrying signals to the country's external partners.

From those cities, 38 have started a water rationing plan, where the supply is alternated between neighborhoods every week.

The least developed countries faced a worrying situation with regard to the development of multimodal transport, and challenges included the limited availability of transport equipment, precarious infrastructure, and complex and onerous administrative procedures.

I suspect there are some people out there sitting, kind of asking tormented questions, almost, about, well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, there's something wrong with mankind interfering in nature in this way.

This politics of nostalgia is troubling, not only because France and Europe confront severe economic challenges, but also because France and other democracies are confronted with real challenges to their legitimacy.

A few could argue, however, that such persistent repetition is in itself a worrying signal of something important left unattended of work whose completion is long overdue.

I I like There was indeed reason to be nervous, and there were moments in which I did feel nervous, knowing the history of what has happened to people who've taken controversial stands or discovered disquieting findings in the behavioral sciences.

Although worrying reports are coming from the Northern part of the country, now ruled by Islamist group Ansar Dine, the African Union failed to mobilise the United Nations Security Council to back a military intervention with troops from the countries of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS).

The hugging and kissing between Bush, Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert were undeniably moving, but they were also troubling and not only because serious references to the Palestinians were, for the most part, not on the agenda.

It is possible, Ramey argues, that their results could reflect a different sort of reverse causality if governments are more likely to respond to high public debt levels with austerity programs when they have reason to believe that economic conditions could make the debt burden especially worrisome.

Egypt is not the first country to struggle in the critical revolutionary pivot from a repressive past to a better and more just future. Nor is it the first country to combine an uncertain political transition with worrisome economic and financial conditions.