Sentence examples for public consternation from inspiring English sources

But the image of the weaponless, aging Al Qaeda figurehead and founder, shot in the head in his spacious house, has raised some public consternation that the Navy SEALs responsible for the killing acted illegally, or that the United States violated a longstanding Executive Order that bars U.S. employees from engaging in "political assassination".

Mr Kerviel, who has become something of a popular hero in France for outwitting fat-cat bankers, is appealing against the decision.The court's order that Mr Kerviel repay the bank €4.9 billion ($7 billion), the amount that it lost in January 2008 unwinding his trades, also caused public consternation.

In trouble with the law Lopsided Glasgow's big spenders Billy Bragg's modest proposal ReprintsThe following day, there was public consternation when four of the five Britons released from Guantánamo Bay were promptly arrested by anti-terrorist police on their return to Britain despite Mr Blunkett's earlier statement that none of them posed "a threat to the security of the British people".

Pilgrim has been the subject of much public consternation as it was built with the same technology as Japan's Fukushima reactor.

Outside officials said there was basically consensus on the issue, even though it was the one that tended to cause the most public consternation.

Not surprisingly, this publicity and the toxic economic conditions accompanying the austerity measures have also become the leading source of public consternation in Greece itself, exacting considerable stress and strain on the Greek public.

When word of this consultation became public, international consternation arose.

The markets were plummeting, and the public's consternation was in some respects, to Negrych, a disappointment.

Lack of women in the Vienna Philharmonic has generated a ruckus from this country's gender-equality lobby and public-relations consternation for an independent orchestra that counts on happy United States audiences for a lot of its prestige and bottom line.

At this juncture, the nation's military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, made public his own consternation, though it did not include any condemnation of the mob.

Italians "look on their public leaders with consternation, and the image of the country abroad has been dangerously weakened," Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops' Conference, told his fellow bishops on Monday.