Sentence examples for spasm of panic from inspiring English sources

Of the current English lot Daniel Sturridge is an expertly supple and varied finisher, while Danny Welbeck looks at times like an anti-finisher, a player whose brilliantly athletic, incisive approach work so often ends with a spasm of panic.

Yet another spasm of panic gripped credit markets, sending stocks tumbling and prompting the Federal Reserve to take new steps to pump money into the economy, which seems certain to sink into a recession.

As the nation gets richer, why are we seized by a spasm of panic that says we can no longer afford a good NHS, social care, education, skills or modern infrastructure?

But there have now been six weeks of unrelenting turmoil in the financial markets since the start of 2016 and the argument that this represents a fleeting spasm of panic before life returns to normal is wearing thin.

The spasm of panic from the Giuliani camp seems justifiable, since he and Bloomberg could end up in a scramble over the votes of moderate Republicans, but at the top of the list of those who would not benefit from a Bloomberg candidacy has to be Hillary Clinton.

That victory appeared relatively smooth with Phelps taking over on the final leg with a huge lead but his team-mate Conor Dwyer said there had been a brief spasm of panic: "I finished my leg and he tapped me on the shoulder and I heard him say, 'I don't have a cap'," he said.

Yet like earlier Spiotta characters, she is highly attuned to the random perils and deceptions of modern life, and she has spasms of panic triggered by news reports about, say, the spread of SARS, the torture photographs from Abu Ghraib, a murder-suicide committed by a former television star, the case of a young Amish girl who disappeared in upstate New York.

Such spasms of panic have long accompanied periods of change here.

The 9/11 terrorist shock sent the U.S. into spasms of panic and fear.

In China's case, however, its spasm of economic panic may have opened a brief window for outside pressure.

In a spasm of pure panic, I saw that I wasn't immune to the kind of tragedy I had always relegated to other people.