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Moreover, as Palin’s political persona takes shape, it looks increasingly alarming.
And so, despite major advances over the last seven decades – such as the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN’s Responsibility to Protect doctrine – human-rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate and with virtual impunity.
But we also need to acknowledge that billions of dollars have been spent on well-meaning attempts to save lives, with an alarming lack of high-quality evaluation of how these investments have performed.
Today, many young people, feeling ignored by the China-friendly leadership, are openly discussing independence and self-rule, alarming the CCP.
All three big events were alarming, and on a bipartisan basis: each was damaging to US national interests, and each was avoidable.
And yet, as alarming as her rapid rise might be, there is much to be learned from her decisive defeat.
As the boom turned into a prolonged bust, the longer-term inadequacies of the job situation have become visible to all who care to look; and they are alarming.
Abe’s Asian GambitCANBERRA – With the world producing more history than most of us can consume right now, it is easy to lose sight of recent developments that could have even greater consequences for long-term peace and stability than recent alarming events in eastern Ukraine, Gaza, and Syria-Iraq.
More recently, the United Nations’ respected advisory group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been deeply embarrassed by the revelation that some alarming predictions contained in an influential report that it released in 2007 have little or no scientific basis.
Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet-point from a report by an environmental think tank.
Ocean acidification and warming has been occurring at alarming rates, and are already having a serious impact on some of our most precious marine ecosystems – an impact that will only intensify.
But current trends and future projections about the quality of jobs are alarming.
The Great Depression produced more alarming outcomes, as the political response to deflation throughout Central Europe and Latin America destroyed the prevailing order, including several democracies.
This kind of sentiment is more alarming, and more ominous, than Brexit’s implications for the future of the British economy.
On this occasion, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin belatedly tried to summon a bit more firmness than usual, but otherwise it’s a familiar story: alarming to foreigners, but not very surprising or disturbing to the French.
Indeed, the reaction was so extreme and alarming that a parade of Fed officials felt compelled to clarify.
Do these figures reflect alarming imbalances or are they the usual signs of a boom?
Indeed, despite perpetual talk of an overheating economy, China’s exports and retail sales are soaring, and its foreign-exchange reserves now approach $2.5 trillion, even as America’s fiscal and trade deficits remain alarming.
This should be exciting, not alarming.
Based on the events of the last week, Republicans evidently would rather rail against insider leaks and, yes, Hillary Clinton’s email server than inquire into the White House’s insouciance about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s alarming links to Russia and Turkey.
Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.
Indeed, Japan's current growth is being driven overwhelmingly by trade with China - a country with only one-thirtieth of Japan per capita GDP!From a broader geopolitical perspective, the situation becomes alarming.
These undesirable consequences of the expansion of world markets have assumed alarming proportions within a relatively short period of time.
The reported abuse of micro-credits to pay dowries is one alarming example.
This is all very funny, but it is also alarming, because it suggests that the world's elite is wilfully out of touch with what is really going on out there.
The outlook for the future is no less alarming: worsening water stress, increased flash flooding, and the depletion of the country’s water reservoirs.
The most alarming development is how deep the ideological vetting now cuts, invading areas that once were immune to this kind of manipulation.
Yet, despite such alarming levels of bloodshed, the insurgency has been under-reported and under-researched, barely registering on the international community’s radar screen, largely because the conflict cannot be reduced to a sound bite-friendly narrative of identifiable bad guys and good guys.
The US federal deficit is an alarming 12% of GDP, and public debt as a share of national income is already projected to double, to 80% of GDP.
As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.
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