Sentence examples for ordered to shake from inspiring English sources

That's when his current bosses at Breeder's Cup decided that an outsider was just what the doctor ordered to shake up the sleepy championship racing series and turn it into a must-see event.

An urban myth in the West held that millions of Chinese had only to jump simultaneously in order to shake the world and throw it off its axis.

Florida reveals the next stage: linking vouchers to the performance of public schools in order to shake up the public-school system throughout the state.

Blasted is a deeply moral play that creates horror in order to shake its audience out of any sense of complacency.

There are passages that read as if she grabbed the keyboard away from her ghostwriters in order to shake free from the perception of phoniness that dogs her.

"As a result of these repeated leaks," the complaint says, "some people now believe, albeit incorrectly, that Ms. Diallo made up the sexual assault in order to shake down the defendant Strauss-Kahn for money".

In the tale he would eventually weave round her, she was an educated Victorian farmer's daughter who claimed to be a fallen woman in order to shake off the conventions of her time.It is hard to exaggerate the stir that "The French Lieutenant's Woman" created when it came out in 1969, at a time of great social, political and sexual upheavals.

More than ever, Cairo needs consensus-building in order to shake off the economic and political paralysis it has suffered during the 18-month-long transition, and move quickly to meet the salient expectations of those who took part in the Jan . 25revolt, and the majority that struggles to secure basic necessities like food and health care.

IAN SCHRAGER, the hotelier and long-ago co-founder of Studio 54, says on the Web site for his eponymous real estate company that he always made it a habit to live in his hotels for a while "in order to shake them down and make sure they functioned correctly".

A popular rumour in Hanoi has it that Mr Dung's critics went after one of his right-hand men in order to shake his power base.Even the party's general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, admitted last month that the government was not fighting graft with as much gusto as many Vietnamese expect it to.

But you can't prove it because no one outside that tight-knit group has actually heard him give the order to shake down the local casino or fit a rival with concrete boots.Left-wing activists are sure they don't like John Roberts, the man President George Bush nominated on July 19th for the Supreme Court.