Sentence examples for approaching shock from inspiring English sources

Surprise turned to something approaching shock when, in successive e-mails, I saw that his opinion was shared by many others in the department.

I reacted with something approaching shock when I first spotted it, since it seems like ages since the last time a company saw fit to cover up a port like this.

The demolition of Spain by The Netherlands approached shock level.

THE ability to excite is not a quality highly prized among central bankers, and certainly not in Threadneedle Street, where the Old Lady synonymous with the Bank of England has from her first depiction in 1797 on the point of ravishment at the hands of a lustful prime minister abhorred anything approaching a shock.

But Mr. Roach said that recent levels were approaching oil-shock territory.

Though most visitors had attended shivas before, several observed that no gathering had approached the shock and deep grief of Leiby's.

His take-no-prisoners approach proved shock therapy for Trex's collegial culture.

In contrast, the MINO plus NAC-treated group, like the sham-CCI-saline group, only became active as they approached the shock zone.

The amplitude of the numerical dissipation provided by the filtering pass is computed by means of the artificial compression method (ACM) switch and it is demonstrated that the use of this sensor improves markedly the quality of results compared to classical approaches (shock-capturing schemes) in laminar unsteady flows.

By the end of 2006, Voyager 1 will be at ∼101 AU, with Voyager 2 at ∼81 AU and still approaching the termination shock.

Still, she said, teachers approaching retirement are shocked when the subject is discussed at retirement workshops.