Sentence examples for alarming tendency from inspiring English sources

Regulation has an alarming tendency to creep.

He has an alarming tendency towards military provocation and brinkmanship.

Blacks born halfway up the income ladder, by contrast, show an alarming tendency to fall down.

Not that Mary, likable but with an alarming tendency to bellow, was thought likely to win.

EQUALITY: The Gates Foundation should seek ways to offset the alarming tendency of the poor to remain poor.

The last time Nigerian peacekeepers came to Liberia, in the mid-1990s, they showed an alarming tendency towards organised crime.

Participating customers who drive without alarming tendencies will receive a discount of up to 30 percent; those with poor driving habits simply do not receive the discount.

Instead of following the example of all the other teachers and indicating that Victoria has alarming tendencies the headmistress realizes that she is really a happy, uninhibited child and sends a favorable report to her parents.

But it turned out a young couple from Torino had bought it, and — though much of the above remained true, and much of the food was quite good, and I'd encourage a visit if you were within, oh, 20 miles (more on the "how many miles is it worth?" theory next week), there were a couple of alarming tendencies.

The study also revealed alarming tendencies related to violence: 16% of the children less than one year and 57% of the children under 7 years are beaten by their parents.

But the early stories really do display cruelty, at least in part: much is made of disability, children are killed off at an alarming rate (this tendency, it so happens, has persisted: wherever you find yourself in Saunders's fiction, you are never many pages from a dead child), and characters are forced out of difficult situations into impossible, agonising ones.