1.   The stabbings provoked widespread alarm in Israel and often led to retaliatory attacks on innocent Arabs.

2.   In most nations such a statement might provoke alarm.

3.   In Washington, the threat provokes less alarm than mirth.

4.   None of the bombs, on either mission, caused much of a fire, but they did provoke alarm.

5.   None of the bombings, on either mission, caused much of a fire, but they did provoke alarm up and down the coast.

6.   None caused much of a blaze, but they did provoke some alarm.

7.   The decline of recess has provoked alarm, even indignation, among most authorities on child development.

8.   The Soviets buried the anthrax here after a deadly accident at one of their germ plants provoked alarm in the West.

9.   This provoked alarm among some American officials.

10.   But police spokeswoman Stefka Ivanova said the alarm was provoked by a suspicious toolbox left in front of the U.S. consulate on Thursday.