Sentence examples for shocking use from inspiring English sources

It was a shocking use of force.

From Lord Maclennan, the Lib Dem peer I am afraid I see what has been published today as inadequate to justify the use of force in response to the horrific and shocking use of chemical weapons by the Assad government.

Even the history of the 20th-century wars are now refracted through the independence referendum: either you take the view that the English and Scottish had fought side by side in the trenches, or instead believe that the exceptionally high levels of recruitment and fatalities in the two world wars spoke to an old and shocking use of Scots as cannon fodder.

The UN human rights chief has condemned the "shocking" use of force by security forces against protesters in Bahrain.

Dr. V's shocking use of the word "dumbass" seemed to be the wake-up call Teresa needed.

The shocking use of sarin gas on Syrian civilians, if proved conclusively to have been perpetrated by Bashar Assad's regime, demands a response as a deterrent to its future use.

Enigmatic, upsetting, erotic or shocking uses of the human body to make art are a well-worn convention by now.

The cartoon is certainly shocking, using the single most distressing image of the refugee crisis – a dead child – to crack a joke.

The payment of bonuses by AIG and other parties are shocking uses of bailout money, which was meant to open up credit again in the economy.

But it was unclear exactly what she did find shocking: the use of any image of her son, it being adjacent to the headline "Dumbs gone to Iceland", or the fact that it portrayed him near to tears.

This study represent an unprecedented integrative study and even though the conclusive findings are not world shocking, the use of state-of-the-art technologies, the experimental design and data integration really makes this a reference work for future integrative studies and puts this study in the class of pioneering integrative -omics studies.