The phrase "a substantial shock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or considerable impact or surprise that someone experiences.
Example: "The news of the company's sudden closure came as a substantial shock to the employees who had dedicated years to their work."
Alternatives: "a significant shock" or "a considerable shock".
That was a substantial shock by any reckoning, yet the economy absorbed it without undue damage.
The immediate effect however would be highly disruptive, and would give a substantial shock to an already fragile world economy.
So, to sum up, there has been a substantial shock to countries that lacked the resources of the social safety nets which provide buffers in the west.
It would take a substantial shock to push the economy into recession, however.That leaves the Federal Reserve as the most likely source of the next downturn.
In contrast, a substantial impact of diastolic dysfunction on mortality in septic shock has been shown [ 23].
We seek an understanding of what aspects of contract design, in the face of a substantial policy shock, affect the propensity to renegotiate.
This significant and rapid growth of immigrants constitutes a substantial (supply) shock, which is expected to affect both employment and earnings differentials of immigrants relative to natives.
In the December 2007 issue of the International Monetary Fund publication Finance and Development, Simon Johnson, director of that organization's research department, wrote, "A substantial inflationary shock in the form of higher food prices [during the previous 12 months was] driven in large part by biofuels policy in industrial countries".
Unlike their Spanish, Portuguese and French competitors, these colonisers possessed no religious orders, no substantial shock troops of professionally single males who could compile masses of information on indigenous peoples and devote themselves full-time to converting them to Christianity.
A very organic sense of London pride has allowed this city to withstand substantial shocks — some welcome, like its transformation into a true cosmopolis; some unwelcome, like jihadist terrorism.
And it isn't as though there aren't potentially substantial shocks for the banks to absorb in the coming few weeks.
