Sentence examples for shock panic from inspiring English sources

South Africa's justice minister rebuked prosecutors for the move, saying the decision had caused "shock, panic and confusion" among the general public.

"There is no doubt that the NPA's decision has induced a sense of shock, panic and confusion within the members of the community and the general South African public.

On Sept. 11, as the attacks played out on a television set mounted on a back wall, patrons and workers in the diner were overcome with shock, panic and agony.

Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said last week that the decision to charge the miners with murder "has induced a sense of shock, panic and confusion within the members of the community and the general South African public," and demanded an explanation from prosectors.

"The commander turned out to be tremendous," said Mrs. Laychak, looking back on a harrowing 12-week passage through shock, panic and grief in which, the widow gratefully notes, Commander BrownWahler was always on call at all hours with a tonic mix of maternal compassion and executive resolve.

Mountain bikers and skiers will recognise the sensation: that mental lurch of shock, panic and powerlessness even as the body is yet to react.

I was shocked, panicked, I thought now what? a thousand thoughts, for myself, my family, have I exposed them as well?" (argument by a nurse working in an adults intensive care unit).

It was pure shock and panic.

People were obviously in a state of shock and panic".

The young men and women lying in pools of blood, everyone rushing down the stairs in total shock, total panic".

Myerson's reaction to her father's suicide a couple of years later was shock, then panic.