Sentence examples for igniting panic from inspiring English sources

PAGE A10 SNAPSHOTS OF HORROR -- The waves' reach spanned thousands of miles, emptying beaches, wiping out families and igniting panic.

Then subprime mortgages started defaulting at alarming rates, igniting panic in the markets and a sell-off among some of the largest hedge funds in the industry, including Tudor, Caxton and Goldman Sachs.

This self-loathing can take root and cause a pessimistic view of the future, igniting panic and despair that love may never be found again.

Whoever had ignited panic with a tablespoon of anthrax powder, officials assumed, would not stop there.

The next year the same thing happened again with the relatively small economy of Russia, whose troubles nonetheless ignited panics from Wall Street to Latin America.

Not only are President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. opposed philosophically to trying to influence currency markets, there is also the concern that any overt support for the dollar might backfire, igniting a panic sell-off of more dollars.

Fearful that rumors would ignite a panic, the government irritated foreign diplomats by jealously guarding information about the quake and the nuclear crisis.

In 2005, about 1,000 people died on a bridge after rumors of a suicide bomber ignited a mass panic.

So the investor pain would be felt throughout Europe, and could well ignite a systemic panic as banks across the Continent suddenly found themselves with big losses.

The Painesville Township Fire Department ignited a small panic this February by posting on Facebook about three overdose patients who seemed to be on fentanyl even though they claimed to have only smoked weed.

Israeli soldiers fired heavy machine guns and tank shells at the refugee camp, damaging buildings, igniting fires, cutting electric power and plunging panicked residents into darkness.