To think of deliberately interfering in the Earth system will undoubtedly be alarming to some.
For many conservatively minded Britons, the possibility of their family losing caste over generations is an alarming one.
We have alarming rates of teenage substance abuse and the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the developed world.
It is amidst these beautiful wildflower fields that one scientist has already found alarming evidence about the potential impact of global warming.
Within that steep increase were hidden some even more alarming trends, notably a fourfold increase in cyclist fatalities and more than a sevenfold leap in motorcycle deaths to nearly 9000 in 2008.
Even more alarming is the situation in Italy and Spain.
The fact that super-angels invest other people's money makes them doubly alarming to VCs.
We had to delicately work with people and extract the information we needed without alarming them, " said Lomas.
They are working in his fields, helping convert another small patch of peatland, and adding to Indonesia’s alarming emissions of carbon dioxide.
The Industrial Revolution saw Manchester thrive and expand as a result of the burgeoning textiles industry at such an alarming rate that it was granted city status in 1853.
The news on that front looks less alarming.
And it is not just the geographical breadth of this crisis that is alarming, but also its economic depth.
The first-ever UN report on the State of the World's Indigenous Peoples in January 2010 set out some alarming statistics.
Rainforests are shrinking at an alarming rate.
In the short term, however, the loss of jobs is alarming.
Even more alarming, bipolar women are 100 times more likely than other women to experience postpartum psychosis, a severe mood disorder that, at its very worst, can result in infanticide.
The potential dangers of this "malware" explosion are alarming.
Professor Jon Rhodes, President of the British Society of Gastroenterology, said the rise in waits for procedures such as colonoscopy was "alarming".
Perhaps even more alarming: Many intruders have apparently done something harmful with the access they've stolen.
Discord waxed at an alarming rate.
Investors searching for relief from a relentless march of bad economic news found wisps of hope in developments that, not many months ago, would have been regarded as alarming.
I warily check ‘best-by’ dates but find nothing alarming.
He cited stronger typhoons, worsening droughts, resurgence of diseases and extinctions of species as among the alarming impacts of global warming.
And needless to say, these aren't just words, they have attached some rather alarming pictures - or rather..
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