Sentence examples for engender panic from inspiring English sources

The "net effect" of television and Internet coverage on world audiences, he argues, "was probably to engender panic and increase their sense of vulnerability".

Rather, the experts said, the leftists probably hoped to engender panic and push Iran closer to a political cataclysm that could open new opportunities for the leftists.

With the opposition Radical Party, supported by the negro and mulatto population, becoming stronger by the day, Governor Mouttet avoided any moves that would engender panic and cause the progressives to haemorrhage further support.

Its deemed unethical to engender panic in people so engineers have turned to ants to help them design safer buildings.

Usually a cry of "man overboard" engenders panic and alarm, but on a white water rafting adventure on the Ottawa River, it is par for the course.

Similarly in World War II, a reported (but false) sighting of enemy bombers two days after Pearl Harbor engendered panic, and German submarines prowling the coastline kept tensions high (the enemy, said F.D.R. in 1942, could "come in and shell New York tomorrow night, under certain conditions").

Potentially dissonance-generating news coverage that might have engendered panic, complacency or cynicism about "yet another epidemic" was uncommon.

A poor performance on Tuesday could well have engendered outright panic.

A sense of panic engenders hasty judgments.

Breakfast becomes a ballet of despair in Noël Coward's 1924 comedy: here, the panic engendered by the narcissistic bohemians who make up the Bliss family reaches a crescendo.

North of the border, meanwhile, the Scottish papers are focusing on what they see as the "panic" engendered by the poll inside the Better Together campaign.