The phrase "alarming instance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific situation or event that causes concern or fear.
Example: "The recent spike in cyberattacks is an alarming instance of the vulnerabilities in our security systems."
Alternatives: "worrying example" or "disturbing case".
He points out alarming instances of everyday sexual violence Algeria and recalls his encounter with "an Islam, that's hostile towards women, foreigners and free thought".
Ireland provides an even more alarming example.
So on Thursday, the Council overwhelmingly passed a bill that aims to stop what members called a growing and alarming trend: instances in which the papers never reach their intended destination, leaving people unaware that they are being sued.
For instance, the alarming salinisation of the Mekong delta, Vietnam's rice-basket, appears to be happening not because of China, as some Vietnamese claim, but at least in part because of Vietnam's own hydropower projects nearby.
Other than postoperative fever, which may or may not have been due to the drug and which in no instance was alarming, toxic reactions occurred in only six patients.
They have found some of it frankly alarming: he has hinted, for instance, that he might nationalize the country's railways and has also talked of repudiating that part of the foreign debt he considers "illegitimate".
Between 2008 and 2012 rates of suicide were almost double those of the non-Indigenous population, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, which also found alarming increases in self-harm instances.
In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham, has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
For instance, he notes the alarming political swerves of Jean Renoir, citing "despicable" letters that the director wrote to a minister in the Vichy government, in 1940, despite having previously been galvanized by the leftist Popular Front.
