Sentences with phrase «of the alarm over»

And yet, after five decades of alarm over threats that were small by comparison, politicians and the media have offered only a muted response.

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Heastie, in the interview, sounded a note of alarm over the governor tying policy such as income disclosure proposals to spending in the budget.

«The apparent reluctance to act, displayed by the District Attorney's Office is a major source of our alarm over the failure to address the deep public anger and steeply eroding trust in our justice system.»

«At least Mr. Grijalva's letters should help clarify for many the essentially political nature of the alarms over the climate, and the damage it is doing to science, the environment and the well - being of the world's poorest.»

Much of the alarm over climate change is based on ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate.

He has played a prominent part in the promotion of alarm over CO2 thanks to his frequent interventions on Wikipedia.

I certainly haven't been able to go to the beach over the last 50 odd years and work up much of an alarm over the rising seas.

Not exact matches

The tone between both sides of the English Channel has been alarming over the last few months, a lawmaker told CNBC.

Here's an alarming fact for new entrepreneurs: Over 66 percent of all new businesses fail within their first eight years of operation.

In 2006, a physician working at a clinic in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., raised the alarm over what he considered high rates of cancer in the community, the result, he surmised, of water contamination from the oilsands operations upstream.

Even before the crash, some were alarmed by videos posted online of drivers allowing autopilot — sort of a teaser of anticipated full self - driving car technology — to take over the wheel of the car.

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

That has led some, like Centerview Partners cofounder Blair Effron, to sound the alarm over the level of activity, saying the market may be overheated.

Over the last few years, many people have been alarmed at the job - destroying implications of automation.

This alarms North Korea's adversaries because the nation recently detonated a thermonuclear device that yielded the energy of perhaps 300 kilotons of TNT — about 20 times as much as the bomb the US detonated over Hiroshima in 1945.

If the leak was something more, it only validates concerns over the alarming trend of information warfare (both information leaks and exploits) and what this means for our collective future.

WASHINGTON — Stephen Harper has expressed alarm over his successor's handling of NAFTA negotiations with the United States, with the former prime minister declaring the negotiations in real peril in a memo titled, «Napping on NAFTA.»

The alarms over AT&T's deal for Time Warner stem from mounting frustration over high prices and the lack of competition in the telecom industry, with most Americans limited to one or two providers of broadband services.

Despite the NDP and healthcare experts raising the alarm over the state of the Misericordia for over a decade, and the case for a new hospital being clearly and repeatedly made, during the 2014 by - election Mandel said that no action could be taken without further study.

Out of the 5,855 Android apps that are included in the Designed for Families program of the Google Play Store, the study found that 28 percent of them «accessed sensitive data protected by Android permissions,» while an alarming 73 percent of the apps «transmitted sensitive data over the internet.»

JP Morgan sounds alarm over US economic data that could signal recession / Ambrose Evans - Pritchard «The US credit markets are flashing a rare warning of economic trouble ahead, signaling that the Federal Reserve risks blundering into another recession without a deft change of course.

They also know that the most productive hours of the day are usually in the morning — and if they have work to do this weekend and want time left over for some recreation, they have to set their alarm clock earlier.

Driving the movement, too, is alarm over the explosion of illegitimate births in the urban underclass (now over 80 percent of births), as well as in the general population (around 30 percent of births).

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

My disbelief and alarm escalated over the ensuing months until in November I pretty much crashed as a result of the election.

In other words, we forbid homicide in order to deter it, to prevent the pain and trouble either of repetition of the act itself (danger) or of the bare threat of that repetition hanging over our heads (alarm).

One does not have to believe that the country is about to be taken over by enragé Southern Baptists to be alarmed by the recent upsurge of the Christian right.

You've gotten through two days of early alarms, sleepy cups of coffee, wobbling ankles in heels at 6:30 am (me every morning), and early work calls that just make you want to crawl back into bed with the covers over your head.

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

I love not having to set the alarm clock, lingering over a cup of coffee, and I just put another loaf of bread in the oven for breakfast — I love the smell of bread baking!

So once I got over the initial alarm of the girth of the vegetable and put on my plastic gloves, it was smooth sailing from there.

I woke up in the middle of the night to the incessant bleeping of a temperature alarm, and over the next 24 hours we watched the temperature slowly rise.

I don't know why people are getting excited over that potential transfer because it is not addressing a pressing issue which is the alarming lack of goals the team has, and at 50 million you got to be out of your goddamn mind to think that makes sense.

I mean, if you can think of another extremely large homer man who hits home runs 440 feet with alarming frequency, someone who towers over all of his peers, you're welcome to chime in.

This incident does raise the alarm in terms of the security surrounding travelling teams in Turkey and in a country which has experienced political unrest in spells over the past few years, it may be seen as a blessing in disguise that proper contingency plans can now be put into place.

While he's currently sidelined with an injury, it has raised alarm bells over the lack of quality and depth that Barcelona possess in that department with Thomas Vermaelen or Javier Mascherano the only options to step in and partner Gerard Pique, and so Ernesto Valverde will surely have no desire whatsoever to see Umtiti leave.

At the start of one race communications broke down between the start and the finish, and an alarmed voice was heard to say over the P.A. system: «Frankly, I'm not quite sure if this race is fours or eights.»

No games in the Premier League are easy but Palace face an extremely tough run in after the Hull game as they face the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal in a space of three weeks and if Pardew's men are unable to claim points over the next few weeks, alarm bells will start ringing soon at Selhurst Park.

Despite spending over # 70million on central defenders Nicolás Otamendi and Eliaquim Managala in recent years, neither has been overly impressive, and the fact that the defence has been ripped apart with alarming regularity by the likes of Leicester, Tottenham, Stoke, Liverpool (twice) and, in the weekend just gone, Southampton has meant that improving the backline has become a major priority for the incoming manager.

However, more alarming is the fact Birmingham haven't managed a goal at home for over two hours, while the only player to have scored at St. Andrews in a Birmingham shirt this season is that of Craig Gardner, whom will sit out the side's next three league fixtures with suspension following his red card offence at home to Wigan Athletic last Saturday.

Bolton's record at home to Manchester United isn't the best, abysmal in fact, with Bolton having beaten the Red Devils just once in a Premier League encounter at The Reebok stadium in eleven meetings, but more alarming than Bolton's slim tally of wins over one of England's most successful clubs is the amount of defeats they've suffered at the hands of United, with Bolton losing seven times on home soil and will nose dive into Sunday's meeting in the knowledge they've lost the last two Reebok meetings.

Don't be alarmed by Animal Kingdom «s size — most of the over 500 acres is for all the animals» habitats.

In some products, the sensor triggers an audible or visual alarm to alert sideline personnel to a high impact hit, and display the number of hits over a certain threshhold on the device itself.

Right now, especially with cuts in funding, and alarming up tick of domestic violence, these agencies need our help all over the country.

After launching with just 100 boxes, Lucky Dip Club now sends out over 1,000 boxes a month, and enjoys almost cult - like status on the craft scene, with legions of devoted fans setting their alarms for the early morning launches and sharing their Lucky Dip Club snaps across social media.

However, over half the parents said that their kids spend more time with video games and television than with books, and an alarming percentage of families do not have any books in their home at all.

If a child is still bed wetting at the age of five a urine alarm system is another option, it has been said it has helped over 2/3's of children.

«When my daughter was 5, she used to worry a lot about house fires,» says Ellen Ferguson, a mother of three in West Orange, N.J. «To get her to go back to her bedroom, I'd remind her that our house was equipped with smoke alarms and then go over a worst - case - scenario escape plan.»

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.