Sentences with phrase «growing alarm»

Four consecutive nationwide surveys found both increasing skepticism and growing alarm among respondents.

The consolidation of the textbook - publishing industry, a development viewed with growing alarm by some educators, took another step forward in November with the announcement by Time Warner Inc. of its intention to sell Scott, Foresman and Company.

Nicola Sturgeon's government is under growing pressure to make sex education compulsory in Catholic schools amid growing alarm about the impact that online pornography and «sexting» is having on children in Scotland.

He allowed the officer to speak to his fiancée alone but grew alarmed when more police arrived and «encircled» Benitez, according to Castro and court papers.

But Possuelo and others grew alarmed by the human toll.

He and other officials watched with growing alarm as homebuyers took on ever - larger mortgages, particularly in major urban centres like Vancouver and Toronto.

Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said the number of people fleeing their homes surrounding the volcano had tripled since Friday amid growing alarm that Mount Agung could erupt at any moment.

Meanwhile, some would - be neighbors grew alarmed that the development, which they consider a huge complex, could be built next to the Old Arlington Heights and Dundee Roads intersection, which they say is dangerous and congested.

In developing countries there was growing alarm at the increasing rate of avoidable malnutrition, disease and infant deaths because mothers in poor communities were abandoning breastfeeding and were often unable to afford sufficient quantities of breastmilk substitutes.

China's detention of internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has provoked a petition urging his release, exposing growing alarm among the country's liberal intellectuals who see him as a test of how far a wave of detentions to stifle dissent could go.

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In the last few years, however, the conservative agency has expressed growing alarm about how the world's energy policies are hurtling the world toward's catastrophic climate change.

Giacalone grew alarmed that «free speech and public interest» would be adversely impacted by this information, so he took the time to offer his readers a quick primer and list of links on copyright law.

I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.

There's growing alarm among veterans service organizations about plans that the incoming administration has for the department and their interest in possibly privatizing critical functions in whole or in part.

There is growing alarm about the inevitability of stranded carbon assets and the potential of a carbon bubble.»

Yet there is no question that the nicotine they contain is addictive — which is one reason many public health experts have grown alarmed by their rapidly increasing popularity.

He said there was growing alarm that key policies concerning drugs, land taxes, electoral and constitutional reform could all be ditched because they were opposed by both Labour and the Tories.

«I saw it in seat after seat after seat, this growing alarm about the SNP and Labour and the amplification of the Conservative message and the way it was being echoed in the broadcast media terrified a lot of English voters and pushed them in a Conservative direction.

It is understood the party's head office decided intervened after growing alarmed that she showed a lack of judgement.

With growing alarm, the Soviets watched as Dulles purged the State Department of suspected liberals.

► «There is growing alarm among the scientific community about the prospect of the United Kingdom exiting the European Union,» Tania Rabesandratana and Erik Stokstad wrote in this week's issue of Science.

There is growing alarm among the scientific community about the prospect of the United Kingdom exiting the European Union.

The vast majority of survey comments reflected parents» growing alarm and anger about the EdTech takeover.

She said she grew alarmed when she started seeing principals and teachers whom she called «high - quality, dedicated people» forced out.

There is growing alarm that overvaccination appears to be causing a multitude of serious medical problems, particularly with the immune system, including allergies, seizures, anemia and cancer.

When the date to move into the Toronto condo apartment she'd purchased pre-construction finally arrived, Jeffrey Kerr's aunt, who had multiple sclerosis, manoeuvred her wheelchair through the door and looked around with growing alarm.