Sentence examples for shocking state of from inspiring English sources

"The city was in a shocking state of turmoil," Ms. Zhou said.

"It's a pretty shocking state of affairs for ordinary consumers," he told me.

Others, even those readily available on DVD, are in a shocking state of disrepair.

It proposed a new national strategy to tackle what it called a "shocking state of  affairs".

The statement describes a shocking state of mental health among many detainees on the island.

First the bad news: reminders of the shocking state of our mental health services.

Mr. Bock puts most of his emphasis where the smart money goes: on tattoos, piercings, comics, stripping, drugs, nonconsensual sex and various shocking states of delirium.

When the British troops entered the fort, it was found, as Prinsep writes, in a "shocking state, full of the remains of men and women killed by the shot shells of our batteries; a number of wounded were likewise lying about, and the stench was intolerable".

International condemnation of the new Egyptian authorities is the product — so the argument here goes — not of shocking state violence against protesters, but of foreign journalists' tendentious omission of the context that justifies that violence.

When he took over from the more austere Sir Peter Davis, Sainsbury's "was in a shocking state", Adam Leyland, editor of The Grocer, told the BBC.

The process will continue in 2012, particularly in and around London which was recently described as being in a"shocking"state by a committee of MPs.