1.   But nobody has ever dealt with so many uprooted people, driven by panic across frontiers to a remote, wholly unprepared provincial city.

2.   Still, scientists note that what was for years just a British disaster has in recent months sent panic across Europe.

3.   This set off a chain-reaction of panic across the globe.

4.   A powerful earthquake rocked seaside resorts in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and spread panic across a wide arc of the Middle East.

5.   On Wednesday a powerful earthquake rocked seaside resorts in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia and spread panic across a wide arc of the Middle East.

6.   That quake spread panic across a wide arc of the Middle East.

7.   The ailment caused panic across France when it became known last month that potentially contaminated beef had reached supermarket shelves.

8.   The quake caused widespread damage to old houses and panic across northern and central Greece.

9.   With that, it triggered panic across the board when some fundamentally sound counters were battered to unthinkable levels.

10.   But amid consumer panic across Europe, London appeared to have little prospect of persuading its EU partners to reverse their decision.