The Sustainable Development Goals set out a vision to end poverty by 2030, to turn the tide on soaring levels of inequality and to accelerate the transition to a world run on safe, renewable energy.
Soaring levels of diabetes, much of it caused by obesity, and the medical consequences of heavy drinking, which are affecting ever-younger people, illustrate this widespread failure, he adds.
Or perhaps its the soaring levels of estrogen I'm experiencing.
The soaring salary levels of doctors are worsening the NHS cash crisis.
The campaign of 2008 was marked by soaring calls for transformation.
However, some aspects of the challenges raised by soaring commodity prices can be tackled by technology.
This was aggravated by corruption and constrained political representation, and by record levels of unemployment, soaring food and fuel prices, severe water scarcity and a volatile political and security context.
It looks set to send the saga soaring to new levels of scaly, flame-spewing brilliance.
Each month is marked on screen by the soaring value of the £2m Pepys Road properties.
The Sahel would be turned into a desert by the soaring population of west Africa.
