Sentence examples for alarming momentum from inspiring English sources

All show business all the time: that pretty much sums up Liza Minnelli's world, in which the star's public and private selves dissolve and merge into a tabloid phenomenon that in recent years has had the alarming momentum of a runaway train with a three-ring circus on board.

An alarming cycle of violence is gaining momentum with lethal attacks on police officers and members of the security forces, and an intensifying counter-insurgency campaign is being directed at militant extremists in the Sinai.

The French newspaper Le Monde said that the attack seemed to confirm "an alarming premonition that has been gaining momentum for a long time: that the verbal and symbolic violence that the most radical right-wing opponents have used in their clash with the Obama administration would at some point lead to tragic physical violence".

The infusion of troops into Afghanistan, he said, had broken the momentum of the Taliban, which in 2009 had made alarming inroads toward its goal of toppling the Afghan government.

The proposed alarming strategy is able to achieve a balance between alarming accuracy and alarming sensitivity.

That's why the growing momentum today of what Taibbi calls the "too much democracy train" is so alarming.

At a time when the climate change stakes are reaching alarming heights, the UN talks (their latest round concluded three weeks ago in Bonn) continue to be bedeviled with a lack of momentum and momentous doses of hypocrisy.

Alarming stuff.

More alarming?

An alarming bunch.

"That is alarming".