Sentence examples for shocking prospect from inspiring English sources

That is a shocking prospect for Germany's media establishment as well as its political leaders.

The shocking prospect is that Gordon Brown could come third and still emerge with the most seats, sailing back into Downing Street as unelected as ever he was.

The borough's other department has received so many new applications that it is considering turning volunteers away, a shocking prospect in the ever-desperate-for-help world of the "vollies," as the firefighters call themselves.

Andrew Wilkie, an independent member of Parliament and a former lieutenant colonel in the Australian Army, said it was "a shocking prospect to think that your son or daughter might have died in vain," although he said the army had performed admirably in Oruzgan.

Green, suddenly faced with the shocking prospect of losing, took Ferrer on directly, running an ad in the final days that cited newspaper articles criticizing Ferrer's budgetary plans and asked, "Can we afford to take a chance?" Phone calls were made and fliers distributed -- not, apparently, by the Green campaign -- insisting that Ferrer would be the Rev. Al Sharpton's cat's-paw.

And as if that liver-shocking prospect isn't bad enough, there are generally rules of conduct for each pub – for example, everyone in the group must talk like James Bond, or all participants have to call each other Frank, or – perhaps better for fellow pubgoers – every member has to remain entirely silent for half an hour.

Especially shocking to Labourites was the prospect of rising unemployment, which Wilson referred to a "shake-out" in employment.

/ Or why should they a long life know, / Who daily practice KILLING?" For the poet Alexander Pope, 30 years later, nothing could be "more shocking or horrid" than the prospect of a kitchen "covered with blood and filled with the cries of creatures expiring in tortures".

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

"But what it does is it solves the huge immediate problem of the anxiety and fear that commuters have over the shocking increase in fares and the prospect of widespread service cuts".

Ms. Haigh will not explain this until the end of the story, when she lays out some shocking calculations about what Mitch's prospects really were.