Local education authorities say rates of early marriage and pregnancy among girls aged 10-18 in Senegal's southern regions are alarming.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

And the world's insatiable appetite is depleting the planet's fisheries and using up land and fresh water at an alarming rate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Bildt had to respond to that issue,too. "It is alarming, it is a condemnation of the provocative regime in Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Some critics have accused the administration of overstating the dangers of swine flu and unnecessarily alarming the public.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Scientific research is progressing at such an alarming rate I think it's impossible to know what ten years from now will hold."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

A study released this month revealed alarming rates of violence against girls aged 10-18 in Senegal's southern regions of Ziguinchor,Kolda and Sdhiou.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

"As a result,an alarming percentage of the Pakistani population now sees America as a greater threat than al-Qaida,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Afterwards,Tomas Ojea Quintana told reporters that the human rights situation in Burma remains "serious" and "alarming," and that it has worsened in some areas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

And on Thursday, a magnitude 6.6 quake struck in the same area, alarming survivors.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

The long term effects of breathing polluted air are even more alarming.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Polish newspapers ran alarming headlines about betrayal and the triumph of Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

World Food Program spokeswoman, Emilia Casella, describes the situation as alarming.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

The alarming prediction that the Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than those in any part of the world was made in a 2007 report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

So that is really alarming figure."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14