11. Still, the drop in the Australian dollar is spooking foreign investors, traders said. 12. He carefully avoided spooking markets by pledging to continue pro-European Union economic policies. 13. The rest of the distance must be covered on foot to keep from spooking the elephants. 14. The one reason ( not to ) would be to try to avoid spooking the markets. 15. The spooking appeared to progress on Friday, when he failed to notch a single birdie. 16. The ministers who had worried about pumping too much and spooking the market had several concerns: 17. Fireworks were shot off from the infield tote board, spooking horses ridden by police officers. 18. Filmmakers don't care about spooking us any longer; they want to make us retch. 19. Kozlowski blamed " rumors " and what he called misleading news coverage for spooking investors. 20. Troubles in both poor Southeast Asian island nations have aggravated their already weak economies by spooking investors.