A hasty plan or course of action provoked by a state of alarm or emergency.
he dismissed the move as a panic measure
Example sentencesExamples
- The government's response to terrorism includes ill thought out panic measures that pose very real threats to our civil liberties.
- The original intervention in 1830 was a desperate and unsuccessful panic-measure designed to bolster a failing domestic regime.
- We are now seeing panic measures that are going to hit a lot of people with very little notice for them to deal with the problem.
- He described the early release scheme as "a panic measure to reduce the prison population".
- Some pundits see the recent cuts in interest rates around the world as panic measures by central bankers to revive their flagging economies.
- The group slammed the Minister's decision as "a panic measure which will seriously damage local democracy."
- He described the national closures as "panic measures".
- This is not a panic measure but is instead a prudent part of our contingency planning to try and offer an emergency fire service.
- She said: "This is a panic measure by a government which has been spooked by the huge public outcry."
- Several panic measures were introduced so that the sport could be seen to improve its safety.