Sentence examples for on a scare from inspiring English sources

Baird said the election victory had handed the Coalition a mandate to "make NSW great" and blamed the seat losses on a scare campaign by Labor, vowing to win them back at the next election.

(Ages 3 to 6) In a comical mixed-media collage, three small ghosts set off on a scare spree ("I scared some mean witches, sitting in dark ditches, lipsticking their lipses, plotting evil trickses," brags one), sending ghouls and ogres galumphing.

Indeed, Pence's comment verges on a scare tactic.

The prime minister: Stop trying to scare the pensioners of this country, stop trying to curry political favour on the basis of a scare.

If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton it would make sense to choose an Old Etonian general.Biagio MazziLondonBirds and bugsSIR – The millennium bug is a poor example of a scare story without foundation ("On a wing and a scare", October 22nd).

(AP) — Presbyterian College, the first-year N.C.A.A. Division I team playing 25 of its 30 games on the road, gave a scare to North Carolina State on Saturday.

The informants related the high level of stigma to the way the national HIV preventive campaigns played on fear, by employing a "scare tactic" mainly focusing on drug users and sex workers, who were defined as "social evils" in the anti-drug and anti-prostitution policy.

Today, two Turkish police officers stand on a street corner to scare away smugglers and their clients.

For those who tuned out the 2006 campaign ads, Democrats ran on a few promises that scare drug makers.

Passengers on a flight from San Francisco to Boise, Idaho got a scare on Monday when a traveler in the first-class section tried to open the emergency exit door.

Trott survived a scare on 62 when he offered a sharp return chance to Herath, who could not hold on to a one-handed catch to his left.