Sentence examples for a positive shock from inspiring English sources

It's a positive shock value," he said.

He called his resignation "a positive shock.

That was a positive shock for some Congressional critics.

Could replacing Saddam Hussein with a progressive Iraqi regime be such a positive shock?

Let's just hope we get a positive shock to the economy or further austerity will be needed".

Papandreou has brushed off the referendum furore, saying that ultimately with New Democracy's endorsement of the measures it has proven to be a "positive shock".

Arsenal will need to compete better when Schalke visit on Wednesday, and Wenger admitted: "I hope this will have a positive impact – it was a shock for the team.

It caught me off guard, a good positive shock.

For example, Charles Kindleberger's "Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" identifies five phases of a financial crisis: an exogenous, normally positive, shock to the system; a bubble in which people exaggerate the benefits of that shock; distress when some investors realize that the game cannot last; the crash; and finally a depression.

Therefore, the condition for switching from laborer to entrepreneur requires an even larger positive shock ( {varepsilon}_2>frac{H_1}{H_2}-1 ) than was required in Case (3.A).

What that policy agenda entails will be a subject of future columns. 1 Data note: The second chart shows the "impulse response" function for a one-standard deviation positive shock on the labor slack variable — "ungap" — from a VAR (vector autoregression).