1.   It certainly did not help that news helicopters were over the area in pitch darkness early Wednesday morning, rousing many people from bed.

2.   Only rumors of an imminent attack, it seemed, could rouse the people here from a passivity born of dread.

3.   The conquest of the planet by the West is thus justified, to the extent that it has roused other people from their fatal lethargy.

4.   The first blasts were loud, but barely roused people from their beds.