Sentence examples for shocking increases from inspiring English sources

For decades, autism's focus has centered mostly on young children, with shocking increases in prevalence announced on a regular basis.

One effect of this has been a shocking increase in the use of food banks.

Ms. Pillay also expressed concern about the "dramatic and shocking increase" in Iraq's resort to the death penalty.

Mr Lamb said: "This shocking increase is a damning indictment of the Government's complacency when it comes to the sexual health of our children.

Marjorie Wallace, from the mental health charity Sane, said she had witnessed a "startling and shocking increase" in the number of young people who self-harm.

"But what it does is it solves the huge immediate problem of the anxiety and fear that commuters have over the shocking increase in fares and the prospect of widespread service cuts".

A Guardian analysis of newly released government figures has revealed a shocking increase in the proportion of ethnic minority children and young people being held in the youth justice system.

The youth worker Camilla Batmanghelidjh has warned of a "shocking increase" in gang rapes of young girls in inner cities, with sexual violence being used to intimidate and punish girls regarded as disrespectful towards gang members.

Today, on Prisons Sunday, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor drew attention to overcrowding and the shocking increase in prison suicides as, he said 'the system is stretched to breaking point'.

Despite a "shocking increase in complaints (from applicants) and MP enquiries questioning delays", they say caseworkers have been told to brush off all enquires and "just give standard lines" of response when called to account.

"In recent years, there has been a shocking increase in abortions performed for no other reason than because a prenatal test identified the potential for a trait a parent didn't like," she said at the news conference last month.