The phrase "alarming terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing language or statements that are intended to provoke fear or concern.
Example: "The report was filled with alarming terms that highlighted the severity of the situation."
Alternatives: "disturbing language" or "concerning phrases".
Other Government officials have described the Iraqi program in more alarming terms.
Mr. Nance's vocabulary brims with alarming terms -- hostage-taking, for one -- that are seldom uttered by travel agencies.
Part of his strategy was to cast as threats, in alarming terms, same-sex marriage, abortion rights, and other bogeymen of the right.
Ryan wasn't the only one who spoke of the tunnel system's frailties, even if the others did so in slightly less alarming terms.
FOR the last two months, senior government officials and private-sector experts have paraded before Congress and described in alarming terms a silent threat: cyberattacks carried out by foreign governments.
So far Britain has tried to explain the riots of August 2011, say, or the growth of food banks, in less alarming terms than potentially catastrophic poverty, but in truth they were warnings of trouble ahead.
With the current rate of dropout of volunteer CHWs the overall impact of such dropouts is really alarming in terms of absolute loss of financial resources on BRAC side and in terms of forgone health services from the community perspective.
"Some of the women's descriptions of what is happening to them is incredibly alarming in terms of the lack of process.
Long-term studies are needed where networking and integrated management with different specialists can tackle this alarming condition.
One alarming long-term cost of a voucher system, Carnoy said, is the impact it could have on the teaching pipeline.
But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.
