The dance of our glances, challenge, abdication, effacement, the perfume of our consternation.

For a country of 1.25 billion people, India's low medal count has always been a source of consternation.

There is consternation among some AMs at a suggestion their title should change to MWPs (Member of the Welsh Parliament).

Eight years and many billions of dollars later, the Pakistani Taliban seized control of the Swat region, terrorizing the adjoining district of Buner and raising alarm and consternation through the rest of Pakistan.

Much to the consternation of the Western media, Chinese people worldwide lashed out against its allegedly biased coverage of the Tibetan riot. Throngs of Chinese expatriates and students took to the streets, protesting the prejudice they perceived in Western media reports.

In regard to one case, where the authorities claimed that the abductee had died in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the bones that were returned to Japan were subjected to DNA tests and found to belong to a number of other people, causing further consternation towards the end of 2004.

CAMBRIDGE The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently rejected proposed rules aimed at making money market funds safer in a financial crisis a rejection that has caused consternation among observers and other regulators. Given the risks that money market funds can pose to the global financial system, as shown by their destabilizing role in the 2008 financial crisis, it is not hard to see why they are worried.