Sentence examples for shock worth from inspiring English sources

Mr Sarkozy had hoped that his autumn "fiscal shock", worth nearly €11 billion ($15 billion) in 2008, would boost confidence and accelerate growth.

If the finale felt flawed, "Mad Men" still had a memorable season, full of threat and risk and shock — worth thinking about, and re-thinking about.

At first the cocktail of deregulation and privatisation that he proposed contained nothing to shock anyone worth his MBA.

Although optimal design changes considerably and value drops by 12%, the ability to reoptimize design after the shock is worth only 1.5% of field value.

Kingsley Amis suggests taking Underberg bitters, a highly alcoholic digestive: "The resulting mild convulsions and cries of shock are well worth witnessing.

But leverage magnified the relatively small decline in asset values into a much larger shock to net worth.Mr Smith persuasively argued that a robust recovery will not occur until the private sector's unpayable debt burden is liquidated.

We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made again... that any film which doesn't shock isn't worth looking at..

But many homeowners like Ms. Davis tried to refinance their homes only to learn with a shock that they were worth far less than they thought.

You won't want to miss out on Bavaria's premier, Horst Seehofer, who has a refreshing habit of shooting from the hip and causing a few days' worth of shock and indignation.

Months of agonizing over how to help Greece, before E.U. governments finally decided on a bailout in May, led to the creation of a "shock and awe" package worth $1 trillion that was meant to fend off further crises.

It's hard to imagine how it would feel looking on as a loved one was acted against in that way, but beyond the shock, it is always worth asking: what could be done instead?