The energy-price shock forced officials to raise the third-year inflation forecast by a tenth of a percentage point in June, with none of the public debate a change in a target would have entailed.
But they also passed up a handful of opportunities to hike rates further, while events beyond their control (China's economic struggles, unexpectedly anemic US economic data, the Brexit shock) forced them to the sidelines on other occasions.
After surviving a horrific morning school bus crash caused by a freak hailstorm, Dean Grieder, a high school junior who is the book's narrator, and 13 other surviving children find themselves in a state of profound shock, forced to organize a makeshift community within Greenway's Walmart-like walls.
Most mental health clinicians now view the practice as a troubling relic of the profession's dark days in the '50s and '60s, when homosexuality was considered a mental illness and the catalogue of "cures" included the sorts of torments made famous by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- electric shock, forced lobotomy, castration.
The original plan was to use the army only as a temporary shock force.
Politicians tap them as a "shock force" to muscle unions backing rival politicians.
Each shock forces involuntary muscle contractions that fatigue the prey's muscles, which allows the eel to better manipulate it for consumption.
Slow-growing economies that fall into recession are typically pushed, as some shock forces a pre-existing imbalance to tip them over.Such imbalances are hard to find now in America.
Brushing aside an Iranian Foreign Ministry apology on Tuesday disavowing the attack, Mr. Hague identified the protesters as members of the Basij, an extremist youth militia and a shock force often unleashed by militant elements in Tehran's religious hierarchy to suppress street protests or attack opponents.
Dissidents who tried to organise a nationwide opposition party in 1998 were jailed, and no one has tried since, although the Chinese media occasionally air the idea of more thorough political reform.The leadership is fearful of acting, and will probably remain so until some colossal social or political shock forces it to change.
