Sentence examples for convulse from inspiring English sources

A CLUTCH of five uninhabited islets and three rocks, cast adrift out in the currents of the Western Pacific, recently demonstrated their power to convulse East Asia.

Part of the "comprehensive assessment", as it is dubbed, is a traditional stress-test of the sort that has been carried out before with mixed success (the aim is to model what happens to a bank if house prices tumble or markets convulse, checking that it remains solvent).

Awkwardly, he funnelled his profits from trading to a firm called "Nav Sarao Milking Markets Limited", based in Nevis, a Caribbean tax haven, although he has no obvious ties to the dairy industry.Why Mr Sarao's continued use of similar trading strategies did not cause markets to convulse again is not clear.

OVER the past year the Senkaku islands, a clutch of five uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, have shown their ability to convulse relations between China and Japan, Asia's two biggest powers.

But when Kashima drops his guard, the thrashings of the grotesque fish convulse the earth.Japan is extraordinarily prone to earthquakes, accounting for nearly a fifth of the world's supply of them.

He died of a heart attack 43 minutes later, after the lethal injection caused him to convulse and a vein to burst.

This was a key part of his appeal as Tory popularity soared, especially given that the electorate takes in so little of the daily political concerns that convulse Westminster.

Fears that Beijing is following a stealth devaluation policy to boost its exports have helped convulse financial markets this year and fed concerns that the economic situation in China is worse than reflected in the official statistics.