Sentence examples for scaremongering from inspiring English sources

One councillor who voted for the motion accused her opponents of "scaremongering" after they warned rubbish would pile up and attract vermin.

What is her likely strategy: Sturgeon will want to present the SNP as a sensible party to counter Tory scaremongering about the prospect of it going into alliance with Labour, while pouring scorn on the Westminster parties for being out-of-touch with Scottish voters.

Critics had denounced Mr Houellebecq's book (see article), which depicts a near future in which Islamists win France's presidency and compromise its freedoms, as Islamophobic scaremongering.

Tales of Chinese domination are "just scaremongering" says one captain.

A report by the Asia Society in Washington, DC, says that scaremongering about China could lead America to forfeit a share of $1 trillion-worth of outward Chinese direct investment by 2020.More of that cash is instead heading to Europe.

This was supplemented with scaremongering about the threat of a revolution.

With the stock exchange and several other treasure palaces of Thailand's globalised elite in flames, unrest spreading outside the capital and a curfew in effect in much of the country, it is not scaremongering to worry that civil war may ensue.The government would pooh-pooh such a notion.

Thanks to scaremongering by green lobbyists and organic farmers, and much media frenzy, most European shoppers will probably remain mistrustful.

There is a palpable sense of frustration with German intransigence, but senior officials dismiss all talk of a downgrade as scaremongering.

The Russian media has been scaremongering that Georgia is about to attack the separatist region of Abkhazia, which is supported by Russia.Yet diplomatic expulsions aside, relations between Russia and America have been relatively peaceful of late.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukTHE terrifying title of Stephen King's latest book will tempt some people to dismiss it as an exercise in scaremongering to be filed alongside the efforts of his horror-writing namesake.