Sentence examples for were close to panic from inspiring English sources

The next morning, the Muellers were close to panic.

Roland Schoeman is no ordinary swimmer, so when Qatar came knocking on his door last month, the South African Swimming Federation were close to panic.

Instead I am close to panic.

His reaction when our photographer pitches up to take his picture is close to panic: "I'm not doing this again!

So with even the usually optimistic government number-cruncher predicting growth of minus 0.3% this year, the mood is close to panic.

Instead of pottering around their weekend dachas and bathing in muddy pools (their usual summer pastimes), intelligent Muscovites are talking seriously for the first time in five years about a financial and political crisis that may be settled only by force of arms.Foreign investors are close to panic.

Three items (items 2, 15 and 20) had significant chi-square probability values and item 15 (I felt I was close to panic) had an extreme negative fit residual value (-2.57).

What it needn't be is close to panic-stricken.

He added: "They must be close to panicking if they're putting this kind of funding in the media here".

No side in the world that is a man down would expect to alarm Barcelona yet Arsenal were close to inducing panic.

The prime minister insisted a "big question mark" remains over the future of the single currency, amid signs that the political impasse in Italy that sparked panic among investors may be close to a resolution.