Sentence examples for alarmed to learn of from inspiring English sources

In light of the glass-box atrium plugged into the J. P. Morgan Library & Museum a few years ago, New York cultural custodians might have been understandably alarmed to learn of plans for architectural intervention at another great institution of Gilded Age ancestry.

They went onto the state's website and were alarmed to learn that as of last fall, only 51% of the preschool's children were vaccinated against the measles.

But select members of the charity's board of directors were alarmed to learn recently that when the records facility went to retrieve them, some of those records — from about 2000 to 2003 — were missing.

They emancipate all who serve them faithfully". So I was greatly alarmed to learn that in the face of a very serious city budget shortfall, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council have proposed cuts to our 72 city libraries that will reduce their very lifeblood -- those liberating books themselves.

Americans were understandably alarmed to learn that the government was in possession of a vast repository of information that could potentially illuminate myriad aspects of their daily lives.

When Ms. Broker later asked a computer specialist to extract files and e-mail from Mr. Miller's computers, she was alarmed to learn that Mr. Miller had deleted years of e-mail she said would have included public records.

Then there's the herd of largely uninteresting, often unlikable folk whose fortunes we track in "Madame Bovary," and who would be alarmed to learn that they were the raw material of a masterpiece.

(Tommasini) Maurizio Pollini (Sunday) Last spring, admirers of the master Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini were alarmed to learn that he was canceling all appearances in America because of illness.

Those who have run pilot studies at 40 "vanguard" centers that have enrolled thousands of women were also alarmed to learn that some sites would soon be transferred to a new contractor.

I was a bit alarmed to learn that Mattel has decided to allow the use of proper names in a new edition of Scrabble being released in the United Kingdom.

Great Lakes Native Americans were alarmed to learn that they were under British sovereignty after the French loss of North America.