Sentence examples for alarmed citizens from inspiring English sources

Eric Holder, the nation's first African American attorney general and a Clinton supporter, suggested that a wave of street crime in the late 1980s through the mid-'90s, much of it related to drug trafficking, had alarmed citizens and lawmakers alike.

Attention, alarmed citizens: are you less than completely convinced that truck-mounted sprayers can zap every West-Nile-infected killer mosquito?

Nevertheless, alarmed citizens have been besieging the sole manufacturer to make the vaccine available, an impossibility since the company is unable to meet military needs.

The police in Portland sometimes get calls from alarmed citizens who spot a person with a semiautomatic weapon walking through the city only to be informed that is legal.

Thousands of alarmed citizens began to investigate unsurveyed stretches of the Pacific Coast, logging their observations on a new Sea Star Wasting map that Raimondi created.

While the cloud's ominous coloring and southwesterly approach -- Chernobyl is about 600 miles southwest of Moscow -- were coincidences that were not lost on alarmed citizens, the cloud poses no threat to residents of the Russian capital, apart from allergic reactions.

The new law is likely to alarm citizens of Hong Kong and Macau, where the March of the Volunteers has been a flashpoint for unrest, amid growing concerns about Beijing's efforts to exert its control over the city states.

The "flurry of reports about possible preparations for airstrikes" has also alarmed American citizens, including the group I meet with once a month to discuss political developments.

This is a move that should alarm all citizens.

The emperor sent troops to punish them for alarming his citizens.

The Italian government tends to keep information quiet — or confusing — so as not to alarm its citizens, Mr. Manasse said, as well as "to avoid conflicts inside the government".