Sentence examples for an alarming extent from inspiring English sources

To an alarming extent, the college had become narrowly professional, a pit stop where teachers accumulated credits needed for promotion.

It will not tell us much about who Mohammed is, or about the forces that shaped him, which are, to an alarming extent, still at work in the places where he came of age.

"Having been homeless as a child is a predictor of being homeless as an adult, so you're building the next generation here to an alarming extent," Martha Burt, director of social service research at the institute, said yesterday.

After a slow start, the pace of service picked up to an alarming extent, with each course following hard on the heels of the last, so that we started to feel rushed.

To an alarming extent they still do, which is why the French faced defeat in Indochina and Algeria, why the United States lost in Vietnam, why NATO fumbled in the Balkans and why General Smith decided to write "The Utility of Force".

That applies to an alarming extent even in America, where President Obama instinctively defaults to the policies of a statist, cradle-to-grave collective, while moving human rights abroad onto the foreign policy back burners in a push to "engage" with despots from Iran to Syria to nuclear-testing, missile-launching North Korea, as well as China.

Grove makes clear the alarming extent to which both Penelope and John Mortimer, who finally divorced in 1971, viewed their lives and marriage as "material".

Studies have shown the alarming extent of the problem: office workers are no longer able to stay focused on one specific task for more than about three minutes, which means a great loss of productivity.

The Los Angeles Times surveys the alarming extent of the domestic surveillance network built up under the aegis of the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, since the attacks, while the New York Times analyses Cheney's waning influence.

But Jez Bond's sparky production charts the descent into mayhem with engaging wit as the alarming extent of Natasha's rigid, theory-based parenting is exposed and as Izzy launches into a drunken, gloriously incoherent aria of self-pity about the multi-cultural conspiracy that has left decent, confused white folk afraid to open their mouths for fear of committing some hate crime.

19 Notwithstanding the alarming extent of these issues, few attempts have been made to formally examine how hospital complaints are addressed in developing countries.