But threats and contract killings have become such a disturbingly common way for Russians to resolve business disputes that foreigners are no longer off-limits.

Workplace violence is a disturbingly common phenomenon.

We never hear the disturbingly common rejoinder to the baseball steroid shame: fans don't care, so what's the big deal?

Among sub-Saharan Africa's children, such stories are disturbingly common.

Armed infiltrations from the North are disturbingly common in South Korea, but few recent ones have been this spectacular.

While the outcome of the case was felicitous for the Huffs, the circumstances surrounding their losses are becoming disturbingly common, some securities lawyers say.

For putting up with my extended absence, Jean deserved something better than a flophouse, a youth hostel or a cardboard box on the brick sidewalk (a disturbingly common sight).

So here are some positive comments, rather than the usual anti-Labour anti-environment vitriolic ones disturbingly common on these 'comment is free' pages these days...

Sexual assault (including rape) was disturbingly common, and at least one hotel manager accused troopers of promoting prostitution.

A landmark government survey in 2007 revealed that the vast majority of children in India are physically abused and that such occurrences are "disturbingly common".