The poor Senate of Hamburg was kept in constant alarm by so dangerous a neighbour.

In interviews at several combat outposts in the area, American soldiers said the constant false alarms were beginning to take a toll.

Meanwhile, it is a source of constant alarm to conservatives that the public will not understand what they really believe.

But after a few hours of constant false alarms, they had surreptitiously unplugged it so they could return to their regular routine.

She seemed to be in a state of almost constant alarm.

There were sudden inspections, midnight searches, constant alarms and the sound of marching boots at all hours.

He had lived so long in an atmosphere of constant alarms and danger, that he was always ready for almost any emergency.

Others beheld suspended over their heads huge rocks, threatening to fall, keeping them in a state of constant alarm.

A few seconds later, the sound of sirens joined that of the constant, howling alarm.

And if it's the latter how am I to make sense of the constant alarm about USA's credit rating being raised in the news?