Sentence examples for decisive shock from inspiring English sources

His literary encounter with Sextus produced a decisive shock: around 1576, when Montaigne had his own personal medal coined, he had it engraved with his age, with "Epecho", "I abstain" in Greek, and another Sceptic motto in French: 'Que sais-je?': what do I know ?

Concepts of "network-centric warfare," "rapid, decisive operations," "shock and awe" and "full-spectrum dominance" suggested that near-perfect intelligence would enable precise military operations and point a straight line to success.

The Ivorian striker, who won four Premier League titles and eight other major trophies in two spells at the club, went on to score the equaliser and then the decisive penalty as Chelsea shocked Bayern Munich in their home stadium in the final.

Results highlighted that effective continuous hyperchlorination after shock treatment was decisive in achieving Legionella reduction, whereas low level free chlorine was the most important independent risk factor associated to legionella isolation (Table  3).

Officials in Washington, gathered for the autumn meetings of the World Bank and IMF, will be hoping the outlook shocks governments into decisive action to support global growth.

Chelsea and Anelka, who had already hit the post, were shocked into more decisive play when they suffered their Stoke City moment, as the substitute Tamas Priskin ran through on the counter-attack to chip Petr Cech.

In light of that quick and decisive finding, I was absolutely shocked and appalled when I heard on June 2 about the minimal sentence you announced that Mr. Turner would serve for this crime.

Semenya's victory was as decisive as what followed was shocking.

Perhaps he will shock us by taking decisive action, but there is nothing in his business-as-usual background to suggest that.

The Centurions were able to move through the countryside more easily than expected and although they were vulnerable to anti-tank weapons and mines, their firepower and shock action had a decisive effect on the battlefield.

We can only hope that the deaths of five teenagers in prison and young offenders' institutions in as many weeks shocks the government into decisive action.