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This vital source of capital is falling at an alarming rate – 8.4% year on year in January.
Yes, there are some alarming elements in Russian policy, mostly because Russia has never really known where it begins and where it ends.
Ukraine Loses Its WayPRAGUE – Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and alarming deterioration in its democratic framework.
CDS rates for these countries rose, their credit ratings were lowered and the yield spreads on their government bonds versus Germany widened to an alarming extent.
The Dutch economy’s poor prospects are similarly alarming.
Youth Without WorkROME – Among the many devastating effects of the current global financial crisis, one of the most pernicious in the developed world is the upward trajectory of the unemployment rate for youth, which rose by six percentage points in the OECD area from 2007 to 2009, with Spain experiencing an alarming 42% youth unemployment rate in 2010.
Worse, the number of child refugees cut off from school – in places like Nepal, Myanmar, and Yemen – is increasing at an alarming rate.
This is an alarming drop for these countries, given that official development assistance (ODA) accounts for more than two thirds of the aid they receive.
At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, California, this month, there was plenty of talk about the numerous alarming reports that have come out in recent months and years.
Here, the lack of free media is especially alarming and does not bode well for a free and fair election.
It is an alarming list: “more frequent extreme events, more intense and changing rainfall patterns, more ocean acidification and ocean warming, coral bleaching, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, salinization of aquifers, the greatly accelerated emergence of new communicable diseases, reduced agricultural productivity, and a disruption of fishing traditions.”
Yet, the culture of anti-doping is equally alarming, because it embodies a dogmatic commitment that limits the capacity for critical debate over what really matters in sport.
These alarming events in the art world have taken place against a background of rising nationalism and Orthodox assertiveness in Russia.
At this point, one cannot rule out the alarming possibility that top European officials are being pressured to shirk international law out of fear of being imprisoned on their next trip to the US.
Moreover, the turmoil has had less obvious, but equally alarming, downstream effects.
The rapid deterioration of health-care systems in the Middle East and North Africa in the last half-decade is alarming.
I don’t agree with that, but the cynicism that such a view reflects is alarming.
Amid unprecedented public concern over the threat posed by climate change – fueled by an alarming recent report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), not to mention devastating natural disasters around the world – negotiators are seeking to establish a set of rules for meeting the Paris commitments.
What is known so far is that childhood obesity has become an epidemic in many countries, with an alarming rise in rates of type 2 diabetes and coronary disease implying a significant negative impact on life expectancy in future generations.
Palestine’s promotion is an alarming diplomatic defeat for Israel and a demonstration of its growing international isolation, but it does not imply a return to a two-state solution.
A Wildlife AwakeningNAIROBI – The World Wildlife Fund’s recently published Living Planet Report 2014 brings some alarming news: wildlife numbers have halved over the last four decades.
And that came on the heels of an alarming study by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that painted a dire picture of Earth’s near future.
And recurring reports of security failures and acute morale problems at US missile sites today add further alarming weight to this concern.
Even more alarming, they discovered that the gene providing the resistance could migrate from one strain of bacteria to another, meaning other types of infections could also become untreatable.
Influential campaigner George Monbiot says “climate change” isn’t alarming enough, so should be replaced with “climate breakdown.”
Trump’s early pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and his support for Israeli settlements in the West Bank, was particularly alarming to America’s Arab allies.
His admiration for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s authoritarian leader, is alarming.
Unemployment remains far too high, with alarming levels of long-term and youth joblessness.
Despite this alarming conclusion, the study did not prompt the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to order utilities to remove spent fuel from overcrowded pools at more than 100 US commercial reactors.
It looks alarming until you click on liberalizing measures and discover a comparable number of green circles.
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