Sentence examples for the shocking increase from inspiring English sources

"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".

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'.

The shocking increase has been attributed to a hesitancy to jump from opaques in the winter months to bare legs in the spring, as nude stockings offer an in-between of sorts.

But the PRB report also attributes the shocking increase in maternal deaths to a wave of state laws restricting access to abortion and shutting down women's health care clinics.

Senator Benjamin Tillman believed that a much more capable warship was needed because of the shocking increase in battleship size over the previous few years between 1907 (the ) and 1912, the displacement of American battleships increased by about fifty percent, from around 20000 LT to 30000 LT.

However, at least in the Mediterranean countries, we cannot rule out the influence of the financial crisis on the shocking increase of social inequality between 2007 and 2011 [ 26], such that 29.9 % of Spanish children and adolescents are estimated to live below the poverty line [ 27].

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.

He said: "A painting probably has the most shocking increase in value than what it cost to make but you'd never look at a Rembrandt and say that's just wood and canvas and paint and say 'how much?"' Asked whether the plastic skull selling for £36,800 would hold its value, he replied: "Maybe on eBay you might be all right for a bit".

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

Forty bishops are among hundreds of members of the clergy who have called on party leaders to do more to prevent people going hungry, in the light of what they describe as a "shocking" increase in the use of food banks.

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