Sentence examples for a sharp shock from inspiring English sources

That lays the groundwork for a bankruptcy procedure and should be a sharp shock to Detroit.

If Mr. Hollande ever thought that his decision to stand steadfast alongside the United States in backing a retaliatory strike against Syria would give him new stature on the global stage or help him at home, the last week has been a sharp shock.

This scheme can solve hyperbolic equations with third-order accuracy in time and space and capture a sharp shock wave very well with the smaller grid number and less diffusion.

Officers can fire two electrified darts from several feet away, delivering a sharp shock that freezes someone's muscles and temporarily incapacitates them.

As I closed my eyes, ready for a solid 15-hour sleep, a sharp shock ran through my spine, making its way down into my chest and through my arms.

In a 2012 interview with the Telegraph, she recalled, "I was convinced that a short, sharp shock, an incursion into the heart of the empire, would be more effective than twenty car bombs in any part of the north of Ireland".

Austerity economics was always meant as a short, sharp shock, not a coherent economic policy.

A short, sharp shock of a book, it packs great power on to its tiny canvas.

"Animal" is, she says, "a short, sharp shock of a play".

We now know it's not just a matter of a short sharp shock.

It's a quick, sharp shock of a read, but underlain with moral ambiguity, not to say ambivalence about the fascinating Máiquel, whose voice and presence seem to linger even after the pulse has stopped racing.