Sentence examples for ferocious shock from inspiring English sources

It was one of the first victories by dismounted commoners over armoured knights in many years and marked the beginning of the rise of the Swiss eidgenossen ("oath brothers") as the most ferocious shock combatants in Europe.

It then rebounds, generating a ferocious shock wave.

Bolivia's shock treatment was ferocious.

Updated at 6.02pm GMT 5.49pm GMT England we shell-shocked by a ferocious start from France.

You were a ferocious climber and your balance was shocking.

Despite a ferocious start from Serena, Venus absorbed the shock and gradually imposed her long-limbed presence on her favorite tennis court.

Can you picture Kevin's shock on discovering that his own ferocious tribal loyalism had yielded to more pragmatic concerns at precisely the same moment as Ed's.

"Everyone is shocked that Shabaab can conduct such a ferocious attack in the heart of a government-controlled district," Rashid Abdi, the Horn of Africa director at the International Crisis Group, in Nairobi, told me.

ONE-TIME SHOCK, THEN PROSPERITY The vast majority of electric utilities are fighting a ferocious rearguard action against true deregulation.

It has been 27 years since Dave Kopay, a ferocious running back and blocker for the Washington Redskins and the San Francisco 49ers, shocked SportsWorld with his declaration.

Mr. Ohlsson offered a ferocious, virtuosic rendition of the Scherzo in B minor, whose stormy opening must have shocked 1830s listeners probably expecting a lighthearted and playful work.