Sentence examples for a shocking act from inspiring English sources

Anywhere else, covering up that profession of the Muslim faith would be a shocking act.

It is to Nicholas a shocking act of violence, a terrible omen of what is to come.

The US condemned the killing as a "shocking act of violence" and an assault on the country's "proud tradition" of free speech.

Crime pays at the Bafta television awards with Southcliffe and Broadchurch, two dramas based around a shocking act of violence, leading the nominations.

Second, a shocking act of religious vandalism occurred – sculptures of the god Hermes, hundreds of which stood around Athens as protectors of thresholds, were hacked and mutilated.

It is because they are witnesses to a shocking act of violence in reprisal for their father's writings that they are sent away from their home in Nigeria.

There's a novel's worth of material here – a novel like Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap, charting the impact on a community of a single shocking act.

"It was a truly shocking act of evil.

Israel's Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein described the murder as "a grave and shocking act, perpetrated against a background of racism, against an innocent teenager".

The European parliament called the sentence a "cruel and shocking act".

And it may need to make a shocking, landmark act of contrition to convince employees its capable of change.