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The apology and the payment represented a shocking U-turn.

And, as Miles argues, this new covenant represented a shocking rupture.

On one hand, The Mail on Sunday fulminated that the existence of the now-defunct items represented a shocking breach of security that exposed the failings of the state apparatus, possibly compromised the safety of Sir John and Lady Sawers and was "potentially useful to terrorists".

The shadow work and pensions secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the plans would represent a "shocking betrayal of pensioners".

"Should the investigation prove the allegations true, it would represent a shocking new dimension in doping with an, until now, unimaginable level of criminality".

To ignore the "life-saving opportunities" of such cost-benefit analysis, he said in testimony before Congress in 1995, would represent "a shocking display of statistical murder".

The IOC has suggested entire federations could be banned from the Games as the fight against doping is escalated, with president Thomas Bach warning it could represent a "shocking new dimension in doping".

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen represents a shocking amount of effort and skill going into a product of little entertainment value and even less significance.

"Chillingly reminiscent of scenes of kids playing soldier, it represents a shocking, worldwide trend: more than 250,000 children under 18 are combatants in current conflicts, an unprecedented number," said the Children in Need organization.

Have you left no sense of decency?" Last week Inhofe released a report by his Minority staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that represents a shocking new low in the public discourse on global warming.

PRISM and XKeyscore certainly represent a more shocking invasion of the information we have digitally presented, but ECHELON shows us that the privacy of our communications have indeed always been under attack.