1.   Meanwhile, alarming developments were taking place in the countryside.

2.   Both use hand-held video cameras, sometimes wielded on the run, to track or flee from alarming developments in the bush.

3.   Alarming environmental developments expose the earth to permanent damage and spur massive human migration.

4.   Fitzgerald is piquant and flirtatious, but Grant is growing tiresome, exemplifying in his portrayals over and over an alarming development in the war between the sexes.

5.   Perhaps the most alarming development has been the slump in consumption, which fuels two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.

6.   Information Minister Mushahid Hussein called Indian statements an alarming development.

7.   It was a scientific triumph, but an alarming development.