Bishop Howard Hubbard, of Albany, gave a brief statement calling the offenses "shocking and repugnant," but he asked that questions be limited to legislative issues.
Reading a prepared statement, a judge told a courtroom packed with journalists and observers, including the hundreds of the regime's surviving victims, that Duch's offenses were "shocking and heinous".
Shocking moment to shocking moment.
"Under these circumstances, the penalty of dismissal is so disproportionate to the offense as to be shocking to one's sense of fairness," Justice Friedman wrote in her ruling.
Faced with a team long on grit and grind but painfully short on perimeter prowess, the Spurs flummoxed the Grizzlies' post-centered offense into stagnant futility on the way to a shocking four-game sweep.
But instead, a shocking number of black Americans were incarcerated for drug-related offenses.
Dr. Lewis Thomas writes, in an unusually naked portrayal of these feelings, "Death is shocking, dismaying, even terrifying...A dying patient is a kind of freak...an offense against nature itself" [ 43].
It also hasn't aged well, with it's shocking lack of diversity and its awkward insistence on gender tropes, among other offenses.
The Orioles, to be sure, had an unusual distraction with Rafael Palmeiro's shocking suspension for steroids use, but he had not been an integral part of their offense, and the other players should have been able to overcome the development.
The matchup between the Patriots' top-ranked offense and Seattle's No. 1 defense instead turned into a star turn for Wilson, and a shocking rally.
Most shocking of all, at least 70 other people in fast food restaurants were duped into committing other kinds of offenses.
