Sentence examples for are shocking for from inspiring English sources

In "Prose" you can finds scads of errors that are shocking for one who lived so long in Brazil.

While the documents that whistle-blower Edward Snowden has revealed are shocking, for many they only confirm what rights groups have been saying for decades.

They are shocking for their bureaucratic punctiliousness.

Her statistics are shocking for the almost total lack of progress they show over more than a decade.

Patricia Awori, an official with the African Elephant Coalition, said, "These numbers are shocking for elephants across the continent".

The many deaths and injuries that occur are shocking for the distracted scarcity of their narration, like the boy from Lancaster who "panicked above the crux of quite an easy route called Touch of Class and fell with a groan of fear backwards on to zinc grey boulders the size of commercial refrigerators".

This is shocking for us all".

"It was shocking for two reasons," Spitzer told me.

"This is shocking for my parents," she says.

It was shocking for people at the time.

But while this destruction, as Isis doubtless intends, is shocking, for me it is also familiar.