But both the president and the Republicans want an alternative to the alarming year-end combination of expiring tax cuts and sweeping discretionary and defence-spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff .Last summer Mr Obama and John Boehner, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, briefly had a deal to raise taxes and cut entitlements.
"There is an alarming movement towards end-to-end encrypted applications," she said.
It was alarming, at the end of the largest mass sentencing in Egypt's modern history, to see five hundred men held responsible, so expeditiously and so severely, for one murder, when there have been no convictions — in fact, there has not been a criminal investigation — related to the deaths of the twelve hundred civilians killed in August.
The Logica magna attributed to Paul of Venice acknowledges other, more alarming ways to end the obligatio.
The alarming problem of end stage renal disease in Hispanics is dramatically increasing because they are more frequently affected by diabetes and high blood pressure, the leading causes of chronic kidney disease.
A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
The numbers sound alarming, but in the end they're just numbers.
According to Amnesty International, executions have resumed in Saudi Arabia at an "alarming rate" since the end of Ramadan, when there was a reprieve.
The Independent and Space for Giants' elephant campaign calls on world leaders at the forthcoming conference to take urgent steps to end the alarming decline of Africa's elephants.
Meira Kumar, the speaker of Parliament's lower house, the Lok Sabha, warned that "the trend of disrupting the proceedings days on end is alarming, and if not checked, will ultimately lead to unforeseen consequences".
