Sentence examples for a worrying shift from inspiring English sources

Except that this lot is encouraging a worrying shift in the market.

Last year, the suggestion by the then work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith that DWP advisers would be placed in food banks signalled a worrying shift in the relationship between the state and emergency food provision.

Employers are picking up the habit of classifying training and experience as a replacement for a proper wage, a worrying shift towards conceptualising the job itself as a product the employer sells to the grateful employee.

"In just two months, we have seen a worrying shift in the legislative environment governing the enjoyment of the freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information in the Russian Federation," said Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, in a statement released in Geneva.

It is a worrying shift.Some conservatives say it proves that Barack Obama likes bossing businesses around.

Jonathan Douglas, director of National Literacy Trust, said: "The fact that children are reading less than in 2005 signals a worrying shift in young people's literacy habits.

This is slightly higher than was recorded in the previous audit and higher than has been observed in much of the literature. 2 It is also important to note the worrying shift towards resistance to ceftriaxone, which had not been present earlier and has emerged with the increasing use of ceftriaxone as second-line therapy.

The crisis two years ago, by contrast, was the result of a more worrying structural shift: a slow build up of demand in developing countries where rising living standards fed the desire for more meat-based meals.

These results highlight a serovar shift and a worrying percentage of MDR strains with increasing resistance to quinolones and third-generation cephalosporins.

This added motivation places no value on environmental outcomes, shifting the balance in a worrying direction.

A worrying counter-argument would be that risks are shifted towards the more vulnerable actors, in this case local aid workers.