With due respect, this is an alarmist statement.

My dear, the police are always on the alarmist side.

II don't want to be an alarmist, but No one ever said you were.

However, my delegation is of the view that we should not take an alarmist approach, as that would inadvertently encourage the terrorists.

The first is to dismiss the concern as alarmist and misplaced on the ground that the situation will not in fact evolve in this way.

But the globe s real problem is not a series of inconvenient facts. It is that we have blocked out sensible solutions through an alarmist panic, leading to bad policies.

Continuous talk of a Sunni Shia divide might ultimately develop into a self fulfilling prophecy. Alarmist rhetoric may, in the end, jeopardize rather than protect the status quo in the region.

According to the last census, conducted in 1985, the foreign population remains numerically stable, a fact which tends to call into question alarmist statements about the invasion of France by foreigners .

In the past, France and Germany were the motors of European integration. Now they are the countries that feel most threatened, and bookshops in both countries are full of alarmist and sensational accounts of national decline.

Some scenarios, including an electronic Pearl Harbor, sound alarmist, but they illustrate the diffusion of power from central governments to individuals. In 1941, the powerful Japanese navy used many resources to create damage thousands of miles away.

A recent newspaper ad campaign here in the United States has further attempted to add confusion and doubt in regard to the scientific evidence, and is also spreading alarmist doomsday scenarios for the economies of the developed countries.

Europe has had more than 250 wars since the beginning of the Renaissance in the mid fifteenth century. So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half century.

It had been prepared before Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the West Bank and contained a number of alarmist predictions that had proved unfounded that was because of the great care taken by Israel.

The need to cut greenhouse gases has become increasingly clear as predictions of global warming denounced as alarmist when they were first made just a few years ago have repeatedly turned out to have been too conservative. We are approaching a point of no return, at which feedback loops will kick in and continue to warm the planet, no matter what we do.

The twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of April 26, 1986 is prompting a new wave of alarmist claims about its impact on human health and the environment. As has become a ritual on such commemorative occasions, the death toll is tallied in the hundreds of thousands, and fresh reports are made of elevated rates of cancer, birth defects, and overall mortality.

So it has been clear for months that a legally binding basis for moving toward a European fiscal union, while indispensible, could only take place outside the framework of the Lisbon Treaty, namely on an intergovernmental basis and as an EU 17 or EU 17 , as has just happened. Moreover, alarmist talk of a split overlooks the reality that the EU and the monetary union have long been moving at different speeds.

Four options are available to States (a) to dismiss the concern as alarmist and take no action (b) to urge the treaty bodies to undertake far reaching reforms and adapt to cope with existing and new demands from within existing resources (c) to provide greatly enhanced budgetary resources to sustain the status quo (d) to combine some elements of (b) and (c) with the adoption of some far reaching reforms (paras. 85 89).