Even if Colombians do decide they want their president to carry on, the outside world might be alarmed at the prospect.
He was of course not out on the half-scraped deck, ready to peer jokingly in the window through which she might, in earlier days, have pretended to be alarmed at the sight of a peeping tom.
This option was rejected by the committee because, even though there would still be limits on what share of their income graduates would have to pay, they might be alarmed at the size of their outstanding debt, especially in the early years when interest charges may be accruing faster than the debt is being paid off.
All sorts of businesses all over the world have good reason to be alarmed at the latest twists in the U.K. debate over the country's membership of EU. Many will already have doubts about investing in the U.K. because of its draconian new immigration laws which make it hard to bring in highly-qualified staff to make up for the U.K.'s chronic skill shortages.
What they discussed is secret (speculation is that it could also involve manufacturing related to an iTV product), but industry observers believe that Apple must be alarmed in the extreme at the possible loss of intellectual property to Samsung as the result of a Samsung-Sharp equity tie-up.
Dr Julie Sharp, senior science information officer at Cancer Research UK, urged men not to be alarmed by the findings.
Some people are a bit alarmed at the idea of surveillance drones overhead or drones that could be hacked or drones crashed in their backyards.
"I am alarmed at continuing reports of detention and physical abuse against journalists believed to be too critical, " the Director-General said.
China became so alarmed at North Korea's belligerence and the thought that America might be sufficiently provoked to attempt another spot of regime change on China's doorstep that it put pressure on Kim Jong Il's regime to attend this week's multilateral talks.
But the West remains deeply suspicious and alarmed at what it fears is subterfuge and deliberate procrastination to conceal Iranian plans to be able to make weapons from its uranium stocks, and therefore the Western demand remains that Iran must suspend nuclear enrichment.
The Center for Security Policy is alarmed at the prospect that a company which profited at the expense of Western security might now be allowed to cash in on the consequences that have arisen, at least in part, from its past misdeeds.
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