Sentence examples for worrying phenomenon from inspiring English sources

AMMAN — They may begin with a slur, a passing glance or an accidental shove: Student brawls that turn into tribal confrontations have become an increasingly worrying phenomenon on university campuses across Jordan.

Instead, there is growing concern that the spoils of the recovery have not been equitably distributed, and that inequality is rising a worrying phenomenon for a society in which 75% of people once identified themselves as middle-class".There has been a backlash recently, particularly since we recovered from the recession," says Mr Seike.

A worrying phenomenon was evolving among England cricketers.

Campaigners say several factors could explain this worrying phenomenon.

Last year, despite a rapidly rising number of cases, the National Institute of Health Surveillance declared that the disease was "not a worrying phenomenon" for public health.

Another worrying phenomenon is "sero-sorting" – when men choose partners who have the same HIV status, in theory negating the need to use a condom.

Possible evidence for such claims is not hard to find: as I discover when I pitch up at a local meeting organised by a group called Frack Free Somerset, many campaigners point to the increasingly renowned case of Tara in south-west Queensland, Australia, where residents have reported no end of worrying phenomena since coalbed methane extraction began there.

Not only that, but the Independent Monitoring Board has also identified a "worrying new phenomenon at Yarl's Wood: the detention of women with serious mental health issues straight from the airport".

A report this week by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) pinpoints a worrying new phenomenon – the institutionalised infant, a whey-faced creature, stuck in school for 10 hours a day, the child of commuting parents possibly, wandering from playground to desk to after-school club without real purpose, nodding off through boredom and fatigue.

The Penn State Worry Questionnaire is a measure of worry phenomena and has been demonstrated valid in cross-cultural populations.

For the first hour or so, though, I worried that the phenomenon might have faded.