Sentence examples for worrying shift from inspiring English sources

Except that this lot is encouraging a worrying shift in the market.

Last year, the suggestion by the then work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith that DWP advisers would be placed in food banks signalled a worrying shift in the relationship between the state and emergency food provision.

Employers are picking up the habit of classifying training and experience as a replacement for a proper wage, a worrying shift towards conceptualising the job itself as a product the employer sells to the grateful employee.

"In just two months, we have seen a worrying shift in the legislative environment governing the enjoyment of the freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information in the Russian Federation," said Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, in a statement released in Geneva.

Jonathan Douglas, director of National Literacy Trust, said: "The fact that children are reading less than in 2005 signals a worrying shift in young people's literacy habits.

This is slightly higher than was recorded in the previous audit and higher than has been observed in much of the literature. 2 It is also important to note the worrying shift towards resistance to ceftriaxone, which had not been present earlier and has emerged with the increasing use of ceftriaxone as second-line therapy.

In fact, beneath the surface of Ucas applications and other recent statistics, there are big and (for some) worrying shifts emerging in the flow of new students into the university system.

We privacy watchers and civil libertarians think this complacent response misses a deeply worrying political shift of vast consequence.

It is this effect that we are trying to replicate in hospital wards and waiting rooms, almost tricking people into not worrying, by shifting their attention".

Somewhere around the third or fourth day of our stay, we hit a turning point as our worries shifted from survivalists to bears.

The need to relieve anxiety while waiting for a call about a shift, worrying about take-home pay at the end of the week, came up in almost every interview.