Fisheries science has long argued that whalers were killing too many whales and that their numbers were dwindling alarmingly. |
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More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the hierarchy. |
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Medics also found that venereal disease increased alarmingly as the troops moved closer to Philippine urban centers. |
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It's comfortable, remarkably light and alarmingly easy to use, and what it lacks in pinpoint accuracy it makes up for in rate of fire. |
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Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire. |
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Most alarmingly, the source of people's information has come under the greatest scrutiny. |
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Most of this alarmingly well-produced record is mindless but zappy pop, lacking anything to attract a mature audience. |
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The ten weight rod bent alarmingly I could feel the corks bend under the pressure. |
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This borrowing has by and large financed consumption, with alarmingly minimal productive investment. |
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Her blue satin heels clacked alarmingly in the empty hall, but she didn't care. |
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One look at his bronze skin, sweet pecs, and alarmingly curvaceous legs, and the ladies are in hormone heaven. |
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The tide rose noticeably inch by inch, creeping up the two seaward tires alarmingly, my tires spun ever-deeper holes in the wet sand. |
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World temperatures are continuing to rise and extreme weather conditions, such as droughts, floods and heatwaves, are becoming alarmingly common. |
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He's well known for having the most alarmingly punchable smile in all of baseball. |
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The gap between performance repertoire and sight-reading skill is alarmingly wide for many, if not most of our students. |
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Most alarmingly of all, both men appeared to be having an uncontrollable fit of the giggles. |
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Some of our top models appear so alarmingly undernourished, I always feel like rushing some food and vitamin pills to them. |
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The only way to get there is by an old bus, along the alarmingly narrow roads that cling to the sides of the mountains. |
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He was an Aborigine, almost unknown then in Australian first-class cricket, and he was alarmingly fast. |
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Because of excessive use and many consecutive dry summers, the water table had descended alarmingly. |
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The second lifted alarmingly off a length but was down the leg side and Bradman was able to duck and let it past. |
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First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter. |
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With a sustained wind speed of 165 mph for 12 hours, with occasional gusts measured at between 185 to 200 mph, the building swayed alarmingly. |
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After a couple of months of reviewing some alarmingly devil-may-care shopping baskets, Anita's organic yoghurt is a sight for sore eyes. |
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I refer to a karaoke bar alarmingly heard by all neighbors within a mile of its wretched source. |
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Holding onto the railing tightly, and feeling my heart flutter alarmingly at the unwavering look in his eyes, I stared back. |
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With the cooking oscillating alarmingly, puddings did restore a certain equilibrium. |
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The friend is meant to provide a contrast with the ways of a city slicker, though some of his scenes come alarmingly close to condescension. |
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The number of girls in co-educational schools in the district is alarmingly low. |
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It's a race against time to stabilize their government before public support, which is alarmingly eroding, starts to hemorrhage away altogether. |
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He won't stick around if the results are not going well and his ranking drops so alarmingly that he is no longer seeded at the Grand Slams. |
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Despite the assumed excellence of its educational system, the country has an alarmingly high rate of functional illiteracy. |
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He was a remarkable American poet and writer whose alarmingly chaotic personal life impacted decisively on his work. |
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His fault, if anything, is pusillanimity of a kind that is alarmingly becoming the hallmark of Congress chief ministers. |
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Now they have discovered, after bending over backwards with effort and capital, the market had diminished alarmingly. |
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The crash had a period of exuberance followed by an alarmingly rapid tumble. |
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Some of our top models appear so alarmingly under-nourished, I always feel like rushing some food and vitamin pills to them. |
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As usual bag after bag was filled with litter but, more alarmingly, ten lifebuoys were hauled out from this short stretch. |
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Reservoir levels may look alarmingly low but water chiefs are confident the region is not facing a crisis. |
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In Quidam a group of alarmingly young-looking Chinese girls manipulate the diabolos while flinging themselves about. |
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Most alarmingly, his wife is contemplating marriage with the family accountant. |
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Me and Keith got caught by an alarmingly large gust of wind and ended up in the drink. |
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In the ensuing recession both the stock market and land values plunged to alarmingly low levels, unseen in many years. |
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For example, when pushing RAM into any of the slots, the board will flex alarmingly due to not being supported on the extreme right side. |
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A trial of a niacin-and-statin combination had to be stopped because the cardiovascular effects were, alarmingly, going in the other direction. |
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More alarmingly, a broader historical sweep suggests that commodities are in a longer-term upward trend. |
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It is becoming alarmingly normal for this newspaper to counsel crime, spread hate, and threaten lives. |
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She has a walk that wouldn't look out of place on a sumo wrestler and a laugh which is punctuated with alarmingly porcine snorts. |
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But many were alarmingly sincere and outright delusional that their opportunity had come knocking. |
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The side door bell jangled alarmingly, and Cook was roused from her place by the fire. A caller? |
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According to Mukri, the population of Sumatran rhinoceros is alarmingly low and it is nearing extinction. |
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A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly. |
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In parts of Africa, the number of households headed by children or grandparents is rising alarmingly. |
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The eggcorns mount up alarmingly here at Language Log Plaza. |
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Reactionary conservative candidates did alarmingly well in recent elections for the European Parliament. |
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Recent statistics indicated that crimes against women had risen alarmingly. |
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In that loss the Lens winger floated alarmingly, but having been put to rights he stuck on the right and tracked back with the best of them. |
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An alarmingly high number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children disappear whilst their case is being processed. |
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Now, alarmingly, UK games developers no longer compete on a level pegging with the rest of the world. |
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This chiaroscuro portrait, intended only to sell underwear, comes alarmingly close to capturing the man. |
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O'Neill's Villa demanded high-octane, blood-and-thunder performances from an alarmingly small number of core players. |
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The little wooden boat rocked alarmingly on the dark, oily floodwater that transformed the backstreets of Dhaka into a murky facsimile of Venice. |
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It is becoming alarmingly and even scandalously common for flight departures from airports all over the European Union to be delayed. |
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She expected him to follow, but then she heard the engine to his car being revved up, he then turned the vehicle and drove away in an alarmingly high speed. |
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All of it is growing alarmingly acidic, as the carbon dioxide spewed out by modern activities finds its way into the briny. |
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Graedon comes down firmly on the side of the luddites, but her vision of the future is less alarmist than alarmingly within reach. |
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Even to an untrained eye, the rolling hills of Mbulu district in northern Tanzania are alarmingly bare. |
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Stuart Broad and James Anderson are very, very good but it's the second string when the pressure on the opposition eases quite alarmingly. |
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However, I had a certain reservation in supporting the report because at present there is an alarmingly one-sided quality in our approach. |
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The number of people forced to leave their zones of residence has increased alarmingly, reaching levels that can be described as catastrophic. |
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Most important, and alarmingly, the effects of climate change on the Arctic is a signal of worldwide climate catastrophe. |
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The alarmingly poor health conditions of millions of people in developing countries are a main obstacle to development. |
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Enrolment and attendance rates have dropped, causing illiteracy among school-age children and young people to increase alarmingly. |
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Over the years, MSD are accordingly becoming alarmingly significant, in terms of both of personal suffering and economic cost. |
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Conversely, the absence of regulations in many developing countries is a key reason why their environment is deteriorating alarmingly. |
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The amount of unpaid assessments, though lower than it had been the previous year, remained alarmingly high. |
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However, the number of people living with HIV continues to grow, and the number of deaths due to AIDS remains alarmingly high. |
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Vaccination coverage was alarmingly low in North Darfur but not in Blue Nile. |
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It is thought likely that Dalilah's release was related to his health, which deteriorated alarmingly while he was in prison. |
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Poverty has deepened alarmingly, with more than three-quarters of Gaza's population living in poverty. |
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The dough will be alarmingly wet, resembling large-curd cottage cheese. |
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This superb, but alarmingly underrated guitarist has a fine pedigree. |
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Three minutes later the Liverpool defence was prised apart, alarmingly. |
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But pressing without due care and attention can give away chances and, as Currie looked certain to score again, the course of the game changed direction alarmingly. |
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It will spit alarmingly, so make sure that your arm is well covered. |
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When a pumpkin is sent to the landfill, it rots, emitting methane, an alarmingly potent greenhouse gas. |
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Corrections officers commit suicide at alarmingly high rates and their average life expectancy is fifty-eight years. |
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Traffic gridlock is commonplace, air pollution levels are soaring and, most alarmingly, the thirst for water means the mighty Colorado River is increasingly running dry. |
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Even the basics are not up to scratch as the court, laid at the last minute, slopes alarmingly and is uneven in some places and positively lumpy in others. |
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Exquisitely shaded pencil drawings are the basis for this slow, patient drift through a surrealist landscape that is at once impossible and alarmingly familiar. |
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For the rest of the bowlers, the difference in their bowling averages is at least five runs per wicket, while their strike rates dip alarmingly too. |
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Yet with much of those resources now focused on Crimea, the paralympics seem alarmingly exposed. |
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We are not talking about a matter of belief, but about an alarmingly large proportion of the European public being convinced that that is the case. |
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A report by the health information provider Dr Foster has suggested that 19 hospital trusts have alarmingly high death rates and hundreds of people are dying needlessly because of substandard NHS care. |
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Even so, as the unkempt forests have thickened, wildfires that do occur have grown alarmingly in intensity, burning hotter, faster and more destructively. |
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With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs. |
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The chances of the euro zone being smashed apart have risen alarmingly, thanks to financial panic, a rapidly weakening economic outlook and pigheaded brinkmanship. |
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Twitter Vision is alarmingly hypnotic as a map of the world scrolls from country to country, with dialogue boxes popping up every second or so that contain everything from news to opinion to the plain whacko. |
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If public sentiment had to be judged by the outpourings on the country's numerous Internet bulletin boards, it would appear alarmingly chauvinistic and bellicose. |
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Need it be recalled that one sixth of the world's population aged 15 and over cannot read or write, that illiteracy affects twice as many women as men, and that functional illiteracy is gaining ground alarmingly. |
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Microcosmically, The Apprentice shows that the line dividing losers from barely more impressive winners can sometimes be alarmingly thin. |
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These alarmingly flashy gestures alert us to the arrival of the cadential material. |
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Among the patients arriving on the river bank to have their cataracts removed and their hernias fixed at the new hospital is a pregnant woman who is bleeding alarmingly. |
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Life is nasty, brutish and soon to be alarmingly different. |
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In addition to substance use disorders, women in prison have alarmingly high rates of mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, phobias, neurosis, self-mutilation and suicide. |
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Within minutes of the official opening, the footway started to tilt and sway alarmingly, forcing some of the pedestrians to cling to the side rails. |
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Former Crewe linkman Roberts, impressive throughout, then lifted over as Steve Evans and Valentine were alarmingly turned. |
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Artists inject ink into a customer's skin with the help of a tattoo machine, which sounds alarmingly like a dental drill. |
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The Acorn employees were, alarmingly, unalarmed by the proposal. |
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In the following campaign, Hun armies came alarmingly close to Constantinople, sacking Sardica, Arcadiopolis and Philippopolis along the way. |
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In a girdle, fake tan and heels he looks alarmingly like TV's David Dickinson on dress-down Friday. |
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The net effect of fishing practices on global coral reef populations is suggested by many scientists to be alarmingly high. |
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He picked up a ginormous speculum that looked alarmingly like a.44, and headed towards her hoo-hah. |
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To add to my mumbling complaint, I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time. |
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While the range of wildlife products available is alarmingly wide, listed below are examples of just some of the endangered species we found for sale. |
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Mental health problems have increased alarmingly among children. |
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The alarmingly high unemployment rate of young people points to the need to bridge the gap between skills acquired in the initial education and the skills needed to succeed on the labour market. |
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Haye started fast and alarmingly caught Thompson with constant barrages of power punches, coming close to forcing a stoppage at numerous points over the first few rounds. |
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