Sentence examples for Alarming proportions from inspiring English sources

But in poor countries, this spread widens to alarming proportions.

Over time, the program has grown to alarming proportions.

The Ruthian waistline began to assume alarming proportions.

"Xenophobic violence has reached alarming proportions in Greece, particularly in the capital city of Athens.

Chan said Zika had gone "from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions".

This mania has reached alarming proportions in New York City, where Democrats are the offenders.

Deficits have risen to alarming proportions; in a risky world, defense cannot drop indefinitely.

Jemini Pandya, spokeswoman of the International Organisation for Migration, said: "Displacement from the Cote d'Ivoire crisis has reached alarming proportions".

A war that was started for no just cause has degenerated into a quagmire of alarming proportions.

With some 40,000 mongrels born in Denmark every year, a mass cull of mutts would reach alarming proportions.

"However, it reached alarming proportions among the 10 percent of the men in uniform who actually saw combat".