Sentence examples for helps shock from inspiring English sources

What if watching disturbing material helps shock citizens into action?

That outrage helped shock the Kennedy administration into action.

Those are specific numbers that the group hopes will help shock the public.

The horror of the Chicago Race Riot helped shock the nation out of indifference to its growing racial conflict.

China's shift from protector to accuser helped shock Mr Kim into talking again, and created the opportunity America has exploited.

The most notorious example of water pollution occurred in 1969, when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire and helped shock America into adopting the Clean Water Act.

I'm hoping the European elections will help shock Democrats out of their orneriness so that they accept the reality that we'll be facing not a referendum, but a choice.

The experience helped shock the then-apolitical Van Zandt into decades of activism.

Adi Da said that this behavior was part of a radical overturning of all conventional moral values and social contracts in order to help shock students into insights regarding habitual patterns and emotional attachments so that they could more completely surrender to him and the community.

Leng writes of his frame of mind at this time: "while George Harrison was bursting with musical confidence, Living in the Material World found him in roughly the same place that John Lennon was when he wrote 'Help!' – shocked by the rush of overwhelming success and desperately wondering where it left him".

But California's new enthusiasm for broader subsidies to help cushion the shock from global competition has hit a roadblock in Washington.