Sentence examples for blind stampede from inspiring English sources
"One such advertisement claimed, 'It is easier for man to maintain morale in the face of bullets than in the presence of invisible gas.' It argued that, unlike bullets, tear gas would 'isolate the individual from the mob spirit' and make the mob 'a blind stampede to get away from the source of torture.'".
It's pretty hard not to panic, and when thousands of people are panicking at once, you get blind stampedes.
The fabled "missile gap" that John F. Kennedy ran on in 1960 was as imaginary as Saddam Hussein's WMD, but anyone who tried telling those truths was charged with a "failure of nerve" or worse by the blind war-mongers stampeding us toward self-destruction.
In old days in Wall St., speculators more professional and stampedes less blind.
Amir covered his eyes as rubber bullets flew, worried that they might blind him, and feared that a stampeding crowd might trample him.
A gang of children, including Rolph, Charlie, a set of eight-year-old twin boys from Phoenix, and Louise, a chubby twelve-year-old, leave the bar and stampede along a slatted path to a blind beside a watering hole: a wooden hut full of long benches with a slot they can peek through, invisible to the animals.
Yet the stampede for shares in Chinese cities also speaks of a blind faith that these companies have impeccable connections with the powers that count.In this section The end of the tunnel From angst to action?
Commentators often highlight the supposed stupidity or madness of crowds during disasters – a stampede of pilgrims, the crush of a football crowd, the blind scramble for the exits in a burning nightclub.
