The phrase "alarming crisis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is both urgent and concerning, often in contexts related to social, political, or environmental issues.
Example: "The alarming crisis of climate change demands immediate action from governments and individuals alike."
Alternatives: "serious crisis" or "urgent crisis".
"Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road" ("Being a Patient" series, front page, Aug. 14) describes an alarming crisis in American medicine: medical students are increasingly shunning the practice of general medicine.
She stood before an alarming crisis, one that she had hoped to avoid for as long as ever she lived the crisis of meeting for the first time the person whom she knew best in the world.
In last several years water access and sanitation became a an alarming crisis in relation to gender, economic, health, children education, and has positive feedback loop between water crisis and other crises facing local and global climate, food, forests, cities, and energy, among other social settings and sectors.
Little wonder that, according to polls, most voters do not believe that either man has a clear plan for fixing the economy.Charles Dickens said of the United States that if its citizens were to be believed America "always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise".
Taylor delicately portrays Emily's anxieties: She stood before an alarming crisis, one that she had hoped to avoid for as long as ever she lived — the crisis of meeting for the first time the person whom she knew best in the world.
Taylor delicately portrays Emily's anxieties: She stood before an alarming crisis, one that she had hoped to avoid for as long as ever she lived the crisis of meeting for the first time the person whom she knew best in the world.
The planet is currently playing host to countless alarming crises.
This is not pornography we're talking about but a substantive response to an alarming human crisis.
Mr. Gephardt said that the report by Congressional budget analysts showed that the Bush 10-year tax-cut package had created an "alarming fiscal crisis" that was draining away historic budget surpluses.
Nonetheless, the decision taken by the good burghers of the Germanophone cantons in Switzerland to vote in large majorities in support of a referendum calling for a ban on minarets when there are virtually none in their own eye-range disguises an alarming identity crisis in Europe.
By their nature, political consultants pride themselves on being able to track shifts in public mood and demand, and they suggested that in this era — with a new president trying to manage an alarming economic crisis — there just does not appear to be much appetite for the kind of red-and-blue attacks that have been their stock in trade.
