But they'd become seemingly unshakeable after four more years.
What felt like an isolated incident has suddenly become an unshakeable reality.
For Mr. Tisci's seventh menswear show at Givenchy, spotlights targeted the marching models like searchlights, as the designer showed a brutish mix of workwear and sports gear in line with his be-kilted warrior aesthetic that has become an unshakeable signature.
According to someone who had extensive dealings with Alexis Tsipras before he became Greece's prime minister, he has an unshakeable belief the EU would not dare let his country go, due to its strategic importance.
"The Middle East has become occluded by prejudice... too many people have unshakeable views of others," says Franks forlornly in a special edition of From Our Own Correspondent, which is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.
There's also SNL cast member Leslie Jones, who derives many of her laughs from her booming voice and unshakeable belief in herself, a character trait that became invaluable during her recent struggles with Twitter trolls and the alt-right.
Travelling through Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt and Turkey in the last half of the 19th century, al-Afghani saw at first hand how unshakeable the "foundations of despotism" in Muslim countries had become.
During this time, it also became apparent that he had transcended music's interminable cycles of fashion, amassing an unshakeable following and becoming a touchstone for plenty of new musicians.
In fact, he became, as the New York Times put it, the government's "most aggressive, dogmatic and unshakeable witness".
Due to spiralling development costs, however, and the seemingly unshakeable power wielded by both publishers and distributors, the bedroom coder has become an endangered species.
