Sentence examples for widening alarmingly from inspiring English sources

The gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. is widening alarmingly, but in Brazil it is beginning to narrow.

In early March spreads began to widen alarmingly on all manner of debt.

Government data showed that the gap had widened alarmingly between low-income and high-income families.

The private sector withered, and by the mid-1990's the gap between east and west began to widen alarmingly.

In the last year, global inequality has widened alarmingly; 62 people now own the same as the poorest half of the world's population, with an estimated £7.6tn of global wealth held in offshore accounts.

The structure's visible cracks had widened alarmingly and continued to do so as the day wore on, provoking enough concern to force two executive decisions: first, to switch off the air conditioning, and second, to close the top floor.

In recent weeks, the spreads on credit-default swaps for securities issued by Dubai's government and several of its biggest corporations have widened alarmingly, if a little hysterically.Having long ago depleted most of its oil reserves, Dubai has reinvented itself as a "sell-side" emirate, dreaming up ingenious schemes for other people to invest in.

Real incomes have stagnated, however, and the gap between rich and poor has widened alarmingly.Visiting the mayor at City Hall, Lexington pondered a narrower question: whether Mr Bloomberg's experiment with self-funded, data-driven rationalism has broader lessons for American politics.

And internationally, the rift between Russia and the West has widened alarmingly, to the point where the US president has begun to think about whether to send weapons to Ukraine.

Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.

The widening gap between her index and the housing market serves as an index of economic confidence and it is looking alarmingly negative.In this section A new page?