Such demands forced Mr. McIntosh to look beyond the city, but with even more alarming results.

Being a curious guy, I submitted a few other addresses as well, with alarming results.

They ran blood tests on fisherman and came up with equally alarming results.

George replaces polyester with cotton as the material for the Yankees' uniforms, with alarming results.

The survey carried out by the traders' magazine, 'Checkout Ireland', came up with the 'alarming result' that 80pc of retailers have been affected by crime.

And when something is under too much pressure for too long, it can erupt unexpectedly, sometimes with rather alarming results.

An alarming result of the drought is the condition of the air.

His Stoke side have had some alarming results in the league of late: beaten in their last four.

But a second of introspection had the alarming result of showing him that his mind, when looked at from within, was no longer familiar ground.

Education, like fashion, heeds the siren call of the newest in notions with alarming regularity and even more alarming results.