1.   Some of them express dismay, others celebrate, but all are astonished.

2.   The severity of the sentence caused surprise, with an ANC statement expressing dismay.

3.   The court expressed dismay that Wiltshire Social Services had called in a voluntary agency -- the NSPCC -- to help look after him.

4.   Although legislators have expressed dismay in conversations, the issue has not been raised in Parliament.

5.   Americans watching the Simpson trial are expressing dismay over the workings of the system, and Republicans in Congress are working to restructure personal-injury law.

6.   An American official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, expressed dismay over the idealism expressed by some proponents of the court.

7.   An Iraqi-American gas station owner paused while buying baklava at a pastry shop here to express his dismay.

8.   Among the score of people who gathered before the mosque to offer their recollections of the stoning, none expressed dismay.

9.   And Deputy Warden D.K. Branom expressed dismay at having kids at the Arizona Center for Women.

10.   And he expressed dismay that despite a proliferation of young talent at the New York shows, his buyers found a dearth of creativity.