1.   And the Pakistani leader, Pervez Musharraf, raised international alarm by saying that possession of nuclear weapons implied that they might be used.

2.   It was only when lab tests belatedly confirmed the Ebola virus that Zairean officials sounded the international alarm.

3.   Last week, when a plunge in Hong Kong set off international alarms, the New York market was a bastion of relative strength.

4.   The conflict over Kosovo caused great international alarm, and U.S. involvement with Israel is causing increasing anger in the Muslim world.

5.   Last month, a respected Moscow daily raised international alarm by publishing a document allegedly from the FSK, accusing American research organizations of espionage against the Russian government.

6.   Now the emergence of the two rebel groups has prompted international alarm.

7.   This impoverished former Soviet republic has struggled with Islamic extremist groups that the government sought to suppress with a crackdown on dissent, prompting international alarm.

8.   The South Asian powers have massed about one millio soops on their common borders since December, triggering international alarm over a nuclear conflict between the arch rivals.

9.   The worsening crisis in Albania sparked growing international alarm Tuesday but the international community offered no concrete proposals to defuse the situation.