Sentence examples for much consternation as from inspiring English sources

Few issues of wine etiquette seem to cause as much consternation as the increasingly common practice of a sommelier taking a small sip of wine, usually unbidden, to test for soundness.

But it did not generate nearly as much consternation as a 1999 fire in the area that was set by the government as a preventive measure but blew out of control.

But the announcement on August 11th that productivity had jumped by 6.4% in the second quarter, and had increased by 1.8% compared with a year earlier, caused as much consternation as celebration.In past downturns productivity has tended to fall, because firms have been slow to make cuts to their workforce.

In middle schools and high schools, vending machines are the subject of much consternation, as nationwide, Coca-Cola and Pepsi sign deals with school districts for exclusive rights to sell their products in school hallways, and put their logos on school scoreboards.

News that the Cavendish had scooped them caused much consternation at King's.

He went on writing hard-edged, hyper-percussive, ferociously expressive works for another twenty years, often causing as much consternation in Iceland as he had in Nazi Berlin.

Of all the moves Sessions made in 2017, none brought as much consternation from all sides of the political spectrum from the Koch brothers and Rand Paul to the ACLU and Cory Booker as this: He revoked the Obama-era instruction to federal prosecutors to be more flexible in charging low-level, nonviolent offenders.

In 1891, responding to a complaint that delivery wagons were using the Dakota's main courtyard, he wrote to American Architect and Building News to say that "a grocer's wagon has never been seen within the quiet precincts of this courtyard, and an ice cart would cause as much consternation to the aristocratic tenants as a streetcar trundled into the space".

The team trailed to Tottenham, but the manner was causing as much consternation.

Rarely has an item of cloth caused so much consternation, controversy and misunderstanding as with the Islamic headscarf or veil.

The former world No 1 announced yesterday that he will miss the British major for the second time in four years, although the implications for his future caused just as much consternation.