1.   Civil liberties advocates were alarmed by the defeat of what they say as a keystone of an emerging legal system.

2.   Gun control advocates were alarmed by the flip-flop and warned it could threaten enforcement of current gun laws and prevent the passage of new ones.

3.   Many key environmental, health and safety regulations will not change, and others are being revised in ways that do not alarm advocates.

4.   Still, consumer advocates were alarmed by the prospect of regional Bell companies linking up.

5.   The broad reach of law enforcement, particularly in singling out individuals of Middle-Eastern background, has greatly alarmed civil liberty advocates.

6.   The lower-court rulings had alarmed advocates for AIDS and cancer patients and disability-rights groups.

7.   The prospect of curtailed drug benefits has alarmed senior advocates, and incensed state regulators who insist that HMOs comply with Massachusetts law.

8.   The risk of a no-tax-cut compromise has alarmed advocates of tax reduction such as Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform.

9.   The trends have alarmed health advocates because overweight people have an increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and some cancers.

10.   They sit in jails and prisons around the nation, charged with violating immigration laws, in circumstances that alarm immigrant advocates, civil libertarians and foreign governments.