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alarming prospect

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meanings of alarmingand prospect


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alarming
adjective
uk /əˈlɑː.mɪŋ/ us /əˈlɑːr.mɪŋ/
causing worry ...
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prospect
noun
uk /ˈprɒs.pekt/ us /ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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Examples of alarming prospect


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It may be that the thought of younger users having such power was, for some respondents, an alarmingprospect.
I accept that that is an alarmingprospect for treasurers of voluntary bodies.
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If that is to continue for any length of time, it is an alarmingprospect.
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That is an alarmingprospect, because applying for parole plays a vital part in a prisoner's life.
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I was rather terrified, as a countryman, at the alarmingprospect of 120,000 volts being turned on to a farmhouse.
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It seems to me to be an alarmingprospect.
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I find that to be rather an alarmingprospect.
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In addition to local authorities' anxiety, the alarmingprospect of rate capping is on the horizon.
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There was a prospect, and a very alarmingprospect, of serious competition in naval programmes.
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I think that raises an alarmingprospect for the future, and those are some of the reasons for raising this subject to-day.
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For an island nation that is an alarmingprospect.
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There is no more alarmingprospect than that.
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We already face the alarmingprospect of retrospective interference in freely negotiated contracts to enforce the sale of assets.
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It would empower it to start forming partnerships engaging in commercial activities, and that would be an alarmingprospect.
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I think it is a very alarmingprospect that we could have rogue use by a rogue state selling nuclear technology to rogue elements.
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He held out an alarmingprospect of what might happen.
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We face the rather alarmingprospect of one quango reporting to another.
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I do not think that we need regard this as a particularly alarmingprospect.
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The need for insurance cover is an alarmingprospect for tenants who opt for do-it-yourself repairs.
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Some will find the notion of a private nuclear power station a quite alarmingprospect.
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