Sentence examples for a giant shock from inspiring English sources

For most of their history, the Shockers were known, if at all, for their mascot, WuShock, a giant shock of wheat with an unsettlingly murderous mien, who was introduced in 1948.* The program was not well funded — to raise money in the eighties, an athletic director staged camel races and charged an entry fee, among other promotional stunts.

"The network acts like a giant shock absorber," says George Kurian George Kurian, vice president of product marketing at Akamai.

In a giant shock, The Hurt Locker also picked up Best Sound Mixing.

That slight distance, and a giant, shock-absorbent platform at its base, shield the library from constant vibrations of trains above.

Localized mantle shock heating by a giant impact could have also altered the morphology of the Martian paleo dynamo.

The resulting precautions, including giant shock absorbers, would prevent damage to the equipment, or the plant would safely shut down, he said.

And the pipes are protected by "snubbers," giant shock absorbers that would slow down the motion of the pipes in a major earthquake; these do not show signs of having been used.

On 26 December 2004, a giant earthquake shocked south-east Asia triggering deadly flood waves (tsunami) across the Indian Ocean.

But on the same day, the board of Hynix, a cash-strapped memory-chip giant, shocked the markets by rejecting a proposed takeover by Micron Technology, an American competitor.

In a nuclear-proof air force command centre, built on giant shock-absorbing springs within Cheyenne Mountain, outside Colorado Springs, officers tracked a missile fired from a mobile launcher deep inside China.

Although the country has taken a giant step beyond the shock and grief of the disaster, many here feel that inertia has taken hold, symbolized by the presidential palace, which looms like a smashed wedding cake over a capital still filled with rubble.