Sentence examples for febrile from inspiring English sources

A Better Together source says Darling told the prime minister that the issue of preventing Scottish MPs from voting on English-only matters at Westminster should be addressed, but not in the febrile atmosphere of the first hours after the declaration.

In the FT, Pickering wrote: "In the febrile days of 2000, my predecessor was told that the very survival of our 200-year-old firm was dependent on the continued employment of a twentysomething individual who had been in the industry for about 18 months.

Then I said, "My daughter almost died last year from febrile seizures, and I'm pretty much terrified to be left alone with her".

The main – perhaps the only – conclusion to draw from all this is that leaders, even a leader of so febrile a country as Russia, can disappear for 10 days and nothing happens at all.

The Quebec question, they argue, is a hangover from the western world's febrile 1960s, whose iconoclastic baby-boomers are now growing old and irrelevant.

See article.The febrile dealmaking in the drug industry continued as Teva, based in Israel and the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, launched an unsolicited $40 billion takeover of Mylan, an American rival.

WITH a budget crisis looming, a finance minister sacked this week and more emerging-market jitters, Poland's economy is looking decidedly febrile.

While misery is nothing new, there is an atmosphere of chaos and trepidation that gives hope to both extremes of the political spectrum.Other strange happenings in the past few weeks have given politics an unusually febrile air.

Unfortunately, it is also an example of the baleful "as if" school of writing, in which similes and metaphors are worn as if they were clanking service medals.Janette Turner Hospital is a well-established novelist, and "Oyster" is a highly readable, febrile tale, inspired by the horrific life of a cult leader, Rock Thériault.

Contributing to this febrile atmosphere is an unspoken fear.

Loan volumes, meanwhile, soared from $2.3 trillion to $3.5 trillion over the same period.More febrile still has been the popularity of newfangled derivatives with difficult names, such as credit-default swaps (CDSs).