Sentence examples for outbreaks of mass from inspiring English sources

77 China said it was introducing laws to control outbreaks of mass what in public places?

Historically this has led to outbreaks of mass hysteria such as the Salem witch trials, but on the internet the potential for hysteria to spread is even greater.

Initially, outbreaks of mass hysteria can be difficult to distinguish from bioterrorism, rapidly spreading infection and acute exposure to a toxin or other environmental hazard.

But none of this should blind us to the fact that well-documented outbreaks of mass psychogenic illness do occur -- and not all that rarely.

Perhaps more frightening than outbreaks of mass violence are the skillfully planned, cold-blooded attacks on individuals that now seem to occur every 4 or 5 days.

At the extreme are the occasional outbreaks of mass symptoms with no discernable physical cause, such as a famous case at a Tennessee high school that was evacuated after a teacher reported a "gasoline-like" smell and feelings of dizziness.

Is it, as the government insists, an outbreak of mass hysteria, or something more alarming?

On 12 November 1916, a bizarre outbreak of mass hysteria produced 800 simultaneous sightings of Chaplin across America.

And it doesn't seem to have resulted in an outbreak of mass athleticism (a la Australia).

IN JUNE THIS year Brazil was struck by an outbreak of mass protests as sudden as a tropical storm.

Carol Morley's entirely absorbing new film is about a mysterious outbreak of mass hysterical fainting at a girls' school in the late 1960s.