Sentence examples for alarming start from inspiring English sources

As Monday's Guardian editorial notes, sending the combative and impulsive Gove to the sensitive department of justice was an alarming start.

After the chancellor's new year warning of a cocktail of threats to the economy and an alarming start to 2016 in the markets, Thursday's GDP figure will get more attention than usual.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A tense visit to Afghanistan by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta got off to an alarming start on Wednesday when a stolen pickup truck sped onto a ramp alongside a runway at a British military airfield and crashed into a ditch as Mr. Panetta's plane was landing.

In other words, President Obama will do similar things, but more so, as we read in today's Guardian, albeit from a far more alarming starting point than ours.

"I thought it would be a lot more artistic but it was actually quite programming-based, which was really alarming to start with, as I had absolutely no coding experience before the degree.

Ross Global, a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school with 400 students, faced problems from the start, alarming parents when it failed to come up with a safety plan for evacuating students from Lower Manhattan in case of emergencies, parents interviewed on Monday said.

"Reporting a hurricane is an alarming experience, it starts when you're on the highway on the way to the story and you see the big signs overhead that say "State of Emergency Evacuation Ordered" and you're actually going against the traffic.

"but who then would have thought that Glamorgan would collapse in such alarming fashion at the start of their innings?

Then, last Sunday, the Chinese government fired both the health minister and the mayor of Beijing, and started releasing alarming data that confirmed these fears.

A professor who taught a Comparative American Studies seminar that was required for majors went on leave, and, as she was replaced by one substitute and then another, Kozol noticed something alarming: the students had started seating themselves by race.

"We feel that when such serious and heinous crimes start occurring with alarming regularity, the time has come to send a loud and clear deterrent signal to all potential criminals that society will no longer tolerate such aberrant behavior," Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said when introducing the bill in the Lok Sabha, the lower house.