Sentence examples for overtaken by panic from inspiring English sources

One Riyadh-based fund manager said local markets had been overtaken by panic.

When the attack came, a roar of rifle and machine gun fire thicker and closer than any ambush yet, from only a hundred or so yards away, the entire gaggle of troops froze for a moment in utter dread that was swiftly overtaken by panic.

When the attack came, a roar of rifle and machine gun fire thicker and closer than any ambush yet, from only a hundred or so metres away, the entire gaggle of troops froze for a moment in utter dread that was swiftly overtaken by panic.

Kervezee, overtaken by blind panic, charges Ajmal, is beaten in the flight and stumped by approximately 477 miles.

As this week's emergency deployment of US and British special forces and advisers in Helmand suggests, grand policy designs have been overtaken by gut panic.

The redemption of the Cowboys and the Vikings, two over-hyped teams avoiding 0-3 saveds, saved them from being overtaken by waves of panic, writes Don Banks on SI.com.

His decision to defect – which surprised even his family when he announced it at a Shabbat dinner – was not an isolated incident in a campaign which has been overtaken by the strong whiff of panic emanating not only from Likud but from Netanyahu himself.

The panic-stricken search for a voice of one's own has been overtaken by an equally urgent quest for belonging.

Nuclear power today is a largely friendless industry: uneconomic without heavy government support, uninsurable, stuck with a military heritage from hell, overtaken by cleaner competitors, beset by waste problems that no one has resolved, and always vulnerable to public panic after the Chernobyl or Fukushima accidents.

But as I awoke, and the story refused to go away, I began to panic that I would have to rewrite my book Neutrino – which it seemed was rapidly being overtaken by events.

Time Warner Cable has been overtaken by bratty teenagers!