Sentence examples for disturbing amount from inspiring English sources

At the moment, though, China's research record is patchy, with too many trivial and pointless "me too" studies, and a disturbing amount of outright fraud.

Its adherents have chosen the revolutionary path of direct action, but they operate with a disturbing amount of passive support from other, less motivated Muslims.

The nation is rushing to adopt electronic voting, but there is a disturbing amount of evidence that, at least in its current form, it is overly vulnerable to electoral mischief.

Mr. Cohen ordered the committee, which will be headed by the under secretary of the Air Force, Carol DiBattiste, to report back to him by the end of July with plans for dealing with what the Pentagon's spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon, acknowledged was "a disturbing amount" of harassment in the ranks.

Some teachers perceive that a disturbing amount of administrative work has been added and they perceive that teaching has become of secondary importance.

The companies claim that "abstract patents are a plague in the high tech sector" and that a "disturbing amount of patents" also fail these tests.

And yet – like disturbing amounts of the mithering of Grumpy Old Men – Shadow does have a point.

Parents of teens are still using corporate laptops to download music and games for their kids, and employees visiting social networking sites are volunteering disturbing amounts of information without hesitation, again on company laptops.

This can go on for a disturbing and senseless amount of time.

What was even more disturbing was the amount of young children in this hostile environment- and the parents were telling their kids to go up and "push the police" and "tell them your life matters, just push your way through if anything happens we will get it on video".

The plateauing of the submission rate may have a disturbing implication: the amount of diabetes research is not increasing in line with the increase in the prevalence and importance of the disease.