Sentence examples for shocking sales from inspiring English sources

And regardless of the device's less than shocking sales (with expectations being hundreds of thousands), the music biz seriously considered rolling out lines of their own specially-packaged hockey pucks and other extravagantly-housed contraptions.

The BBC has been criticised by the chair of the parliamentary public spending watchdog for the "shocking" sale of Television Centre in west London to a consortium that she claimed was "clearly a tax avoidance scheme".

This may sound shocking, but sales people are different from engineers, and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.

Scott Harshbarger, the president of Common Cause, said of the Democrats' record-setting donations, "This is a shocking fire sale".

This is not shocking news, and sales are unlikely to suffer because the vehicle has less ground clearance and can't tackle off-road ascents and descents as well as its predecessor, for which off-road prowess was never a strong point anyway.

Research by International Data Corp showed a shocking 14 per cent plummet in sales to 76.3 million worldwide for the first three months of the year, far exceeding the 7.7 per cent forecast.

On February 17th, more than a dozen federal agents arrived at his offices in Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against him and two of his associates, saying they had engaged in a fraud of "shocking magnitude" involving the sale of roughly eight billion dollars' worth of certificates of deposit.

Packer's Fairfax sale is shocking, given his very public wishes to run and own the firm.

The funeral business is one of the few that remain viable here in Danville these days home to a smattering of churches and fast-food joints, a shocking number of for-sale signs, and not much else.

Yes, the first iPhones also went on sale for shocking sums; yes, they too were decried as luxuries for affluent geeks; and yes, it's plausible that the Rift along with its rivals, the Valve-sponsored HTC Vive and Sony's PlayStation VR (PSVR), will overcome these hurdles and achieve popular acceptance.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.