After the consternation subsides, both make a discovery.
Sylvia Gellburg Lucy Cohuu) has suddenly and seemingly without cause lost the use of her legs, much to the consternation both of her adoring but fearsome husband, Phillip (Antony Sher), and a doctor, Hyman (Nigel Lindsay), whose interest in his patient may extend beyond the professional.
Both events caused consternation in Libya, but the Americans made things immeasurably worse with their announcement that Libya had "tacitly approved" their raid.
The refusal to guarantee the United States some form of return on its investment is causing enormous consternation among both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill.
The conclusions reached by Mr. Chollet and Mr. Goldgeier will no doubt cause consternation on both sides of the political aisle.
Rarely in the history of the interborough rivalry has one player caused such consternation on both sides of the divide, and it is one small case in which the Mets actually emerged as victors.
But in the end, to the consternation of both state and federal officials, Betty Montgomery of Ohio and James Ryan of Illinois insisted on adding a dissenting addendum to the proposal.
Left unanswered, to the consternation of both NATO bureaucrats and diplomats, was whether Russia could really gain an equal voice in NATO discussions without the ultimate tool given other members -- a veto of proposals it cannot accept.
And so Nina embarks on an odyssey of self-sacrifice that involves nursing wounded soldiers back to health; her ministrations include jumping into bed with them, to the shock and consternation of both Charlie and the doctor running the clinic, Ned.
Justice Wells, to the consternation of both sides, advanced an option that does not currently exist in Florida election law: allow the secretary of state to certify only the uncontested counties, let the hand counts continue, and then later decide whether to certify them.
