An economist at Peking University said it would be "earthshaking" for the region's population of more than 100m and bring "tremendous economic progress in north-eastern China by 2050".
Those articles later collected in Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004)—culminated in Hersh's earthshaking exposé of inmate abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, which he traced beyond the U.S. soldiers involved to policy formulated at the highest levels of the administration of Pres.
These discoveries were earthshaking, and Galileo quickly produced a little book, Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), in which he described them.
Because the revolutionary events had such earthshaking power, the history of France in the century preceding 1789 has until recently been seen as a long prologue to the coming drama, a period marked by the decay of the ancien régime ("old regime"), a locution created during the Revolution.
Etta James, with her earthshaking delivery and take-no-prisoners approach, traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to record "Tell Mama" (1967), one of the decade's enduring soul anthems, written by singer and songwriter Clarence Carter.
But few would have expected anything earthshaking from Athens, a small city in Georgia that calls itself the "Classic City".
A campaign that many, including me, only learned of hours after being knocked out of bed by earthshaking explosions from surprise airstrikes in Sanaa.
The subject matter here is so definitely mired in Britishness; perhaps it is fitting to claim Perry and Claire as our personal favorites and not look for earthshaking insights.
The minor announcement from the Mars Science Laboratory team comes as a letdown after weeks of speculation that the rover had made an "earthshaking" discovery, as reported by NPR last month.
For decades, P.A. systems have readily delivered earthshaking volume, but clarity and warmth are a different matter.
