Sentence examples for a spasm of zero from inspiring English sources

In a spasm of "zero tolerance," the police once staged a raid there with helicopters and riot squads.

AMERICA is greeting the New Year with a spasm of nostalgia for an old one.

A day after the Los Angeles Lakers brought this often jaded city to its feet by storming to the National Basketball Association championship, the mayor and other embarrassed city officials were grilled over a spasm of post-game violence that left two police cruisers burned and four officers injured.

In 1893, Mallarmé retired from teaching, but his freedom lasted less than five years: a spasm of the larynx killed him.

The last three weeks have seen a spasm of aggressive initiatives by the Bush administration to secure the borders and help quell rising public concerns.

Nearly two decades after it was consumed in a spasm of genocidal hatred, Rwanda projects itself as a country of logic, a country of control.

Part duel, part duet, the scene lasts sixteen minutes and concludes not with a resolving chord but in a spasm of bile.

There has been a spasm of institutional reform.

Iceland went into a spasm of furious restitution.

Then came a spasm of buyer's remorse.

An earthquake is a spasm of ground shaking, originating from part of the earth's crust.