Sentences with phrase «with alarm their declining»

Having grown up as the most grounded member of his small family, he has developed a peculiar relationship with his parents, playing to their expectations while studying them as though they were lab rats, charting with alarm their declining sex life.

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Those who point with alarm to a precipitate decline of the oldline churches and a sudden thriving of conservative ones are not, of course, referring only to numbers.

Many looking in, believe Arsenal could be faced with a similar prospect to Manchester United when they lost Sir Alex Ferguson — but that isn't true, The Gunners» alarming decline has already taken place.

Some parents are already raising alarms that the food quality has declined this year; that the standards have been watered down; and that Chartwells, with a new contract as of SY 2012 - 2013, is serving food that only nominally meets the requirements.

The incredible decline in the standard and quality of policing by the Nigeria police force has reached an unprecedented alarming rate with their naked dance of...

Disrupting vital teaching, interfering with crucial exams and heaping further pressure on an already strained fire service, false fire alarms remain a huge concern within the education industry but with the BSI now recommending protective covers for all manual call points, will we see a decline in malicious activations?

That's why we note with alarm the sharp decline in the population of black teachers in our cities.»

Bees, butterflies and birds disappearing at alarming rates along with untold other species dead or in decline.

Once those who mimic the biased alarming basis of the IPCC learned that Mann (with great public IPCC and Gore acclaim) successfully hid in his hockey stick the decline of late 20th paleo proxy temps and also hid the MWP then those same IPCC mimics also started to take advantage of Mann's precedent.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

Right now, as many as 1/3 of all shark species are threatened with extinction, and the rates at which species are declining is alarming.

The earth is facing multiple whammies, with land productivity declining at an alarming rate.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.