Sentence examples for shocking lesson from inspiring English sources

But the journey was fraught by harassment from the authorities; it makes grim reading, being, as Davidson puts it, "a shocking lesson in the power and brutality of 18th-century despotism".

Some Japanese companies learned this shocking lesson against axiomatic design after they lost their businesses to new competitors in manufacturing.

We'd been saved on a whim, but the very serendipity of our liberation hammered home a shocking lesson: More often than not, the people being held in these godforsaken places are as innocent as I was.

We'd been saved on a whim, but the very serendipity of our liberation hammered home a shocking lesson: More often than not, the people being held in these godforsaken places are as innocent as I had been.

We may still believe in the healing power of love, but extreme reality can dispense shocking lessons.

One of the most shocking lessons for him from Mali, Mr. Le Drian said, was the lack of French surveillance drones, which he called "incomprehensible".

That was a totally shocking real world lesson for us -- and one that led to important family talks about ethics and character that I won't ever forget.

Appalling fire-drills; shocking punctuality to lessons and at times, a tenuous leadership team; legionella in the water; little forward-planning and countess "monitoring visits" oozed the life out of classroom teachers.

And, of course, the root causes of the shocking result are lessons we need to quickly learn in the United States and around the world about economic justice, xenophobia and demagoguery.

In August, then prime minister Tony Abbott backed Mirabella for Indi, saying she had learnt her lesson from her "shocking" defeat.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.